GPU Comparison

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AMD

RADEON

AMD FirePro S9300 X2

CORE STATE Capsaicin

VRAM 4 GB

CLOCK SPEED —

TDP 300 W

BUS WIDTH 4096 bit

ARCHITECTURE GCN 3.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2016

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

27,971

28,528

geekbench_vulkan

37,109

31,001

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 S9300 X2

GTX 970

Core Specs

Shading Units

4,096

1,664 -59.4%

Shaders

4,096

1,664 -59.4%

TMUs

256

104 -59.4%

ROPs

64

56 -12.5%

Compute Units

64

—

Clocks

Base Clock

—

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

—

1178 MHz

GPU Clock

975 MHz

—

Memory Clock

500 MHz 1000 Mbps effective

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

4 GB

4 GB

VRAM (MB)

4,096

4,096 0.0%

Memory Type

HBM

GDDR5

Memory Bus

4096 bit

256 bit

Bandwidth

512.0 GB/s

224.4 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

48 KB (per SMM)

L2 Cache

2 MB

2 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

62.40 GPixel/s

65.97 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

249.6 GTexel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

7.987 TFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

499.2 GFLOPS (1:16)

122.5 GFLOPS (1:32)

Power

TDP

300 W

148 W

TDP (W)

300

148 -50.7%

Suggested PSU

700 W

300 W

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

2x 6-pin

Architecture

Architecture

GCN 3.0

Maxwell 2.0

GPU Name

Capsaicin

GM204

Generation

FirePro Server (Sx300)

GeForce 900

Process Size

28 nm

28 nm

Transistors

8,900 million

5,200 million

Die Size

596 mm²

398 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

14.9M / mm²

13.1M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (12_0)

12 (12_1)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.2.170

1.4

OpenCL

2.1

3.0

CUDA

—

5.2

Shader Model

6.5

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Dual-slot

Length

267 mm 10.5 inches

267 mm 10.5 inches

Height

111 mm 4.4 inches

111 mm 4.4 inches

Outputs

No outputs

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

5,999 USD

329 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

FirePro Terascale

GeForce 700

Successor

Radeon Pro GCN

GeForce 10

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