GeForce GTX 970 and FirePro W5000 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 970 vs FirePro W5000
GeForce GTX 970
9932
FirePro W5000
3066
GeForce GTX 970
FirePro W5000
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
GM204
Pitcairn
Market segment
Desktop
Workstation
Release date
September 2014
August 2012
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
PCIe 3.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)
500 Watt
-
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pins
None
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1178 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1050 MHz
825 MHz
CUDA cores
1664
-
Floating-point performance
3,920 gflops
1,267 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
5,200 million
2,800 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1664
768
Power consumption (TDP)
145 Watt
75 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
98 °C
-
Texture fill rate
109 billion/sec
39.60
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
3200 MHz
Memory bandwidth
224 GB/s
102.4 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
1x DVI, 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
GameStream
+
-
GameWorks
+
-
GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-