NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD FirePro S9300 X2
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Sep 2014
Mar 2016
Generation
GeForce 900
FirePro
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1050 MHz
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Boost Clock
1178 MHz
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Memory Clock
1753 MHz
500 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
HBM
Memory Bus
256bit
4096bit
Bandwidth
224.4GB/s
512.0GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
1664
4096
TMUs
104
256
ROPs
56
64
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
2 MB
2 MB
Compute Units
—
64
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
65.97 GPixel/s
62.40 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
122.5 GTexel/s
249.6 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
3.920 TFLOPS
7.987 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
122.5 GFLOPS
499.2 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GM204
Capsaicin
GPU Variant
GM204-200-A1
Capsaicin XT
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
GCN 3.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
5.2 billion
8.9 billion
Die Size
398 mm²
596 mm²
Board Design
TDP
148W
300W
Suggested PSU
300 W
700 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
No outputs
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
2x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
2.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.2
CUDA
5.2
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Shader Model
6.4
6.0
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
3,646
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3DMark Time Spy Extreme
1,683
—
OctaneBench
77
—
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
15
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
30
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
40
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Blender
305
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▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.