AMD FirePro W9000 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jun 2012
Jan 2015
Generation
FirePro
GeForce 900
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
1753 MHz
Base Clock
—
1127 MHz
Boost Clock
—
1178 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
6GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
384bit
128bit
Bandwidth
264.0GB/s
112.2GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
32
—
Shading Units
2048
1024
TMUs
128
64
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
768 KB
1024 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
31.20 GPixel/s
37.70 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
124.8 GTexel/s
75.39 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
3.994 TFLOPS
2.413 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
998.4 GFLOPS
75.39 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Tahiti
GM206
GPU Variant
Tahiti XT GL
GM206-300-A1
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Maxwell 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
4.313 billion
2.94 billion
Die Size
352 mm²
228 mm²
Board Design
TDP
274W
120W
Suggested PSU
600 W
300 W
Outputs
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.21x SDI
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
1x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.3
Shader Model
5.1
6.4
CUDA
—
5.2
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
—
2,300
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
—
1,025
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
—
10
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
—
25
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
—
35
GTA 5 1080p
—
70
▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.