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 980

CORE STATE GM204

VRAM 4 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1216 MHz

TDP 165 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE Maxwell 2.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2014

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

geekbench_opencl

9,999

33,457

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

N/A

474

geekbench_metal

N/A

15,163

geekbench_vulkan

N/A

38,172

passmark_directx_10

N/A

53

passmark_directx_11

N/A

83

passmark_directx_12

N/A

46

passmark_directx_9

N/A

164

passmark_g2d

N/A

792

passmark_g3d

N/A

11,095

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

4,753

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

FirePro W5000

GTX 980

Core Specs

Shading Units

768

2,048 +166.7%

Shaders

768

2,048 +166.7%

TMUs

48

128 +166.7%

ROPs

32

64 +100.0%

Compute Units

12

—

Clocks

Base Clock

—

1127 MHz

Boost Clock

—

1216 MHz

GPU Clock

825 MHz

—

Memory Clock

800 MHz 3.2 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

256 bit

256 bit

Bandwidth

102.4 GB/s

224.4 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

48 KB (per SMM)

L2 Cache

512 KB

2 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

26.40 GPixel/s

77.82 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

39.60 GTexel/s

155.6 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

1,267.2 GFLOPS

4.981 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

79.20 GFLOPS (1:16)

155.6 GFLOPS (1:32)

Power

TDP

75 W

165 W

TDP (W)

75

165 +120.0%

Suggested PSU

250 W

450 W

Power Connectors

None

2x 6-pin

Architecture

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Maxwell 2.0

GPU Name

Pitcairn

GM204

Generation

FirePro GCN (Wx000)

GeForce 900

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

Dual-slot

Length

183 mm 7.2 inches

267 mm 10.5 inches

Height

111 mm 4.4 inches

111 mm 4.4 inches

Outputs

1x DVI2x DisplayPort 1.2

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

599 USD

549 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

FirePro Terascale

GeForce 700

Successor

Radeon Pro Polaris

GeForce 10

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