GPU Comparison

A

AMD

RADEON

AMD FirePro D700

CORE STATE Tahiti

VRAM 6 GB

CLOCK SPEED —

TDP 274 W

BUS WIDTH 384 bit

ARCHITECTURE GCN 1.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2014

VS

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

GeForce GTX 970

CORE STATE GM204

VRAM 4 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1178 MHz

TDP 148 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE Maxwell 2.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2014

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

geekbench_opencl

23,716

28,569

geekbench_vulkan

27,968

31,042

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

N/A

369

geekbench_metal

N/A

13,595

passmark_directx_10

N/A

46

passmark_directx_11

N/A

71

passmark_directx_12

N/A

41

passmark_directx_9

N/A

143

passmark_g2d

N/A

764

passmark_g3d

N/A

9,638

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

4,073

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

FirePro D700

GTX 970

Core Specs

Shading Units

2,048

1,664 -18.8%

Shaders

2,048

1,664 -18.8%

TMUs

128

104 -18.8%

ROPs

32

56 +75.0%

Compute Units

32

—

Clocks

Base Clock

—

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

—

1178 MHz

GPU Clock

850 MHz

—

Memory Clock

1370 MHz 5.5 Gbps effective

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

6 GB

4 GB

VRAM (MB)

6,144

4,096 -33.3%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Memory Bus

384 bit

256 bit

Bandwidth

263.0 GB/s

224.4 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

48 KB (per SMM)

L2 Cache

768 KB

2 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

65.97 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

108.8 GTexel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

3.482 TFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

870.4 GFLOPS (1:4)

122.5 GFLOPS (1:32)

Power

TDP

274 W

148 W

TDP (W)

274

148 -46.0%

Suggested PSU

600 W

300 W

Power Connectors

—

2x 6-pin

Architecture

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Maxwell 2.0

GPU Name

Tahiti

GM204

Generation

FirePro Data Center (Dx00)

GeForce 900

Process Size

28 nm

28 nm

Transistors

4,313 million

5,200 million

Die Size

352 mm²

398 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

12.3M / mm²

13.1M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (11_1)

12 (12_1)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.2.170

1.4

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

3.0

CUDA

—

5.2

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Dual-slot

Length

279 mm 11 inches

267 mm 10.5 inches

Height

—

111 mm 4.4 inches

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.21x SDI

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

—

329 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

FirePro Terascale

GeForce 700

Successor

Radeon Instinct

GeForce 10

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