GeForce GTX 970 and FirePro W2100 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 970 vs FirePro W2100
GeForce GTX 970
9932
FirePro W2100
930
GeForce GTX 970
FirePro W2100
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name
GM204
Mars
Market segment
Desktop
Workstation
Release date
September 2014
October 2015
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
PCIe 3.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
Recommended system power (PSU)
500 Watt
-
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pins
None
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1178 MHz
680 MHz
Core clock speed
1050 MHz
680 MHz
CUDA cores
1664
-
Floating-point performance
3,920 gflops
435.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
5,200 million
950 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1664
320
Power consumption (TDP)
145 Watt
26 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
98 °C
-
Texture fill rate
109 billion/sec
13.60
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
7.0 GB/s
1800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
224 GB/s
28.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
2x DisplayPort
Multi monitor support
4 displays
-
DisplayPort count
-
2
Dual-link DVI support
-
1
HDMI
+
-
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
G-SYNC support
+
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (11_1)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
5.1
Vulkan
1.1.126
1.2.131
AppAcceleration
-
+
GameStream
+
-
GameWorks
+
-
GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-