NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs AMD FirePro W6170M

GPU Specs Compare

G

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

NVIDIA 2015-01
G

AMD FirePro W6170M

AMD 2014-08

Graphics Card

Release Date
Jan 2015
Aug 2014
Generation
GeForce 900
FirePro Mobile
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
1127 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1178 MHz
-
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
1500 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
2GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
128bit
Bandwidth
112.2GB/s
96.00GB/s

Render Config

Shading Units
1024
896
TMUs
64
56
ROPs
32
16
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
1024 KB
256 KB
Compute Units
-
14

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
37.70 GPixel/s
17.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
75.39 GTexel/s
61.60 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.413 TFLOPS
1.971 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
75.39 GFLOPS
123.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
GM206
Emerald
GPU Variant
GM206-300-A1
Emerald XT GL(216-0857001)
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
GCN 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
2.94 billion
2.08 billion
Die Size
228 mm²
160 mm²

Board Design

TDP
120W
Unknown
Suggested PSU
300 W
-
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Portable Device Dependent
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
None

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
2.1
Vulkan
1.3
1.2.170
CUDA
5.2
-
Shader Model
6.4
6.5

📊 Benchmark

3DMark Time Spy
2,300
-
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
1,025
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
10
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
25
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
35
-
GTA 5 1080p
70
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