AMD FirePro S7000 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 Which One is Better

Graphics Card

Release Date

Aug 2012

Sep 2014

Generation

FirePro

GeForce 900

Type

Desktop

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

1753 MHz

Base Clock

-

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1178 MHz

Memory

Memory Size

4GB

Memory Type

GDDR5

Memory Bus

256bit

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

224.4GB/s

Render Config

Compute Units

20

-

Shading Units

1280

1664

TMUs

80

104

ROPs

32

56

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

48 KB (per SMM)

L2 Cache

512 KB

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate

30.40 GPixel/s

65.97 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

76.00 GTexel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

FP32 (float)

2.432 TFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

152.0 GFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name

Pitcairn

GM204

GPU Variant

Pitcairn XT GL(215-0828073)

GM204-200-A1

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Maxwell 2.0

Foundry

TSMC

Process Size

28 nm

Transistors

2.8 billion

5.2 billion

Die Size

212 mm²

398 mm²

Board Design

TDP

150W

148W

Suggested PSU

450 W

300 W

Outputs

1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

DirectX

12 (11_1)

12 (12_1)

OpenGL

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

-

3,646

3DMark Time Spy Extreme

-

1,683

OctaneBench

-

77

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

-

15

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

-

30

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

-

40

Blender

-

305