NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD FirePro W7100

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4 GB vs AMD FirePro W7100 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD FirePro W7100

Price

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$ 369.00

$ 189.96

$ 179.04 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2262 points

96% significantly better overall score

1150 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

47 FPS

21 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

26 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

35 FPS

17 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

17 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

31 FPS

10 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

22 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

28 FPS

19 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

9 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29153 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

25868 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

34107 points

34% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

25403 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29277 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

24202 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32348 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

27600 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1050 MHz

14% slightly higher core clock speed

920 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

8 GiB

100% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

Identical

256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224.4 GB/s

40% slightly higher memory bandwidth

160 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

145 W

3% slightly lower TDP

150 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

65.97 Gigapixels/s

124% significantly higher pixel rate

29.44 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

122.5 Gigatexels/s

18% slightly higher texture rate

103 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.92 TFLOPS

18% slightly better floating point performance

3.3 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1664

1792

7% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

104

112

7% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

75% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

193rd of 586

255th of 586

Family

The product line

FirePro

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September

2014 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.4

GeForce GTX 970 vs FirePro W7100 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 970 GPU is faster than the FirePro W7100 in gaming.

The GeForce GTX 970 has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture.

As stated by the manufacturer, the FirePro W7100 has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 970 has a slightly lower TDP at 145 W when compared to the FirePro W7100 at 150 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 970 over the FirePro W7100.