Product Compare
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs AMD FirePro W7000
| GPU | GPU | |
|---|---|---|
| Graphics Card | ||
| Release Date | Oct 2014 | Jun 2012 |
| Generation | GeForce 900M | FirePro |
| Type | Mobile | Desktop |
| Bus Interface | MXM-B (3.0) | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| Clock Speeds | ||
| Base Clock | 924 MHz | |
| Boost Clock | 1038 MHz | |
| Memory Clock | 1253 MHz | 1200 MHz |
| Memory | ||
| Memory Size | 3GB | 4GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Memory Bus | 192bit | 256bit |
| Bandwidth | 120.3GB/s | 153.6GB/s |
| Render Config | ||
| Shading Units | 1280 | 1280 |
| TMUs | 80 | 80 |
| ROPs | 48 | 32 |
| L1 Cache | 48 KB (per SMM) | 16 KB (per CU) |
| L2 Cache | 1536 KB | 512 KB |
| Compute Units | 20 | |
| Theoretical Performance | ||
| Pixel Rate | 49.82 GPixel/s | 30.40 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 83.04 GTexel/s | 76.00 GTexel/s |
| FP32 (float) | 2.657 TFLOPS | 2.432 TFLOPS |
| FP64 (double) | 83.04 GFLOPS | 152.0 GFLOPS |
| Graphics Processor | ||
| GPU Name | GM204 | Pitcairn |
| GPU Variant | N16E-GT-A2 | Pitcairn XT GL(215-0828073) |
| Architecture | Maxwell 2.0 | GCN 1.0 |
| Foundry | TSMC | TSMC |
| Process Size | 28 nm | 28 nm |
| Transistors | 5.2 billion | 2.8 billion |
| Die Size | 398 mm² | 212 mm² |
| Board Design | ||
| TDP | Unknown | 150W |
| Outputs | Portable Device Dependent | 4x DisplayPort 1.2 |
| Power Connectors | None | 1x 6-pin |
| Suggested PSU | 450 W | |
| Graphics Features | ||
| DirectX | 12 (12_1) | 12 (11_1) |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 3.0 | 1.2 |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | 1.2 |
| CUDA | 5.2 | |
| Shader Model | 6.7 (6.4) | 5.1 |