GPU Comparison

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AMD

RADEON

AMD FirePro W4100

CORE STATE Cape Verde

VRAM 2 GB

CLOCK SPEED —

TDP 50 W

BUS WIDTH 128 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

5,447

28,528

geekbench_vulkan

6,496

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 W4100

GTX 970

Core Specs

Shading Units

512

1,664 +225.0%

Shaders

512

1,664 +225.0%

TMUs

32

104 +225.0%

ROPs

16

56 +250.0%

Compute Units

8

—

Clocks

Base Clock

—

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

—

1178 MHz

GPU Clock

630 MHz

—

Memory Clock

1000 MHz 4 Gbps effective

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

2 GB

4 GB

VRAM (MB)

2,048

4,096 +100.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Memory Bus

128 bit

256 bit

Bandwidth

64.00 GB/s

224.4 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

48 KB (per SMM)

L2 Cache

256 KB

2 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

10.08 GPixel/s

65.97 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

20.16 GTexel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

645.1 GFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

40.32 GFLOPS (1:16)

122.5 GFLOPS (1:32)

Power

TDP

50 W

148 W

TDP (W)

50

148 +196.0%

Suggested PSU

250 W

300 W

Power Connectors

None

2x 6-pin

Architecture

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Maxwell 2.0

GPU Name

Cape Verde

GM204

Generation

FirePro GCN (Wx100)

GeForce 900

Process Size

28 nm

28 nm

Transistors

1,500 million

5,200 million

Die Size

123 mm²

398 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

12.2M / 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

Single-slot

Dual-slot

Length

171 mm 6.7 inches

267 mm 10.5 inches

Height

69 mm 2.7 inches

111 mm 4.4 inches

Outputs

4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

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 Pro Polaris

GeForce 10

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