GPU Comparison

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AMD

RADEON

AMD FirePro W5000

CORE STATE Pitcairn

VRAM 2 GB

CLOCK SPEED —

TDP 75 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE GCN 1.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2012

VS

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

GeForce GTX 970M

CORE STATE GM204

VRAM 6 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1038 MHz

TDP —

BUS WIDTH 192 bit

ARCHITECTURE Maxwell 2.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2014

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

geekbench_opencl

9,999

18,991

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

N/A

472

geekbench_vulkan

N/A

18,516

passmark_directx_10

N/A

28

passmark_directx_11

N/A

42

passmark_directx_12

N/A

24

passmark_directx_9

N/A

99

passmark_g2d

N/A

381

passmark_g3d

N/A

5,704

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

2,289

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

FirePro W5000

GTX 970M

Core Specs

Shading Units

768

1,280 +66.7%

Shaders

768

1,280 +66.7%

TMUs

48

80 +66.7%

ROPs

32

48 +50.0%

Compute Units

12

—

Clocks

Base Clock

—

924 MHz

Boost Clock

—

1038 MHz

GPU Clock

825 MHz

—

Memory Clock

800 MHz 3.2 Gbps effective

1253 MHz 5 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

2 GB

6 GB

VRAM (MB)

2,048

6,144 +200.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Memory Bus

256 bit

192 bit

Bandwidth

102.4 GB/s

120.3 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

48 KB (per SMM)

L2 Cache

512 KB

1536 KB

Performance

Pixel Rate

26.40 GPixel/s

49.82 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

39.60 GTexel/s

83.04 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

1,267.2 GFLOPS

2.657 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

79.20 GFLOPS (1:16)

83.04 GFLOPS (1:32)

Power

TDP

75 W

—

TDP (W)

75

—

Suggested PSU

250 W

—

Power Connectors

None

None

Architecture

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Maxwell 2.0

GPU Name

Pitcairn

GM204

Generation

FirePro GCN (Wx000)

GeForce 900M

Process Size

28 nm

28 nm

Transistors

2,800 million

5,200 million

Die Size

212 mm²

398 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

13.2M / 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

MXM Module

Length

183 mm 7.2 inches

—

Height

111 mm 4.4 inches

—

Outputs

1x DVI2x DisplayPort 1.2

Portable Device Dependent

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

MXM-B (3.0)

Other

Launch Price

599 USD

—

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

FirePro Terascale

GeForce 800M

Successor

Radeon Pro Polaris

GeForce 10 Mobile

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