GeForce GTX 970 and FirePro V7900 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 970 vs FirePro V7900
GeForce GTX 970
9932
FirePro V7900
2373
GeForce GTX 970
FirePro V7900
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
TeraScale 3 (2010−2013)
GPU code name
GM204
Cayman
Market segment
Desktop
Workstation
Release date
September 2014
May 2011
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
PCIe 2.1 x16
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)
500 Watt
-
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pins
1x 6-pin
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1178 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1050 MHz
725 MHz
CUDA cores
1664
-
Floating-point performance
3,920 gflops
1,856.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
5,200 million
2,640 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1664
1280
Power consumption (TDP)
145 Watt
151 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
98 °C
-
Texture fill rate
109 billion/sec
58.00
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
7.0 GB/s
5000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
224 GB/s
160 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
4x DisplayPort
Multi monitor support
4 displays
-
DisplayPort count
-
4
Dual-link DVI support
-
1
HDMI
+
-
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
G-SYNC support
+
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
11.2 (11_0)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.4
4.4
Shader Model
6.4
5.0
Vulkan
1.1.126
N/A
GameStream
+
-
GameWorks
+
-
GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-
StereoOutput3D
-
1