NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM vs AMD FirePro W5100

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM and AMD FirePro W5100 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 7 month(s) later
  • Around 26% higher core clock speed: 1176 MHz vs 930 MHz
  • Around 72% higher texture fill rate: 76.86 GTexel / s vs 44.64 GTexel / s
  • Around 33% higher pipelines: 1024 vs 768
  • Around 72% better floating-point performance: 2,460 gflops vs 1,428 gflops
  • Around 17% higher memory clock speed: 7012 MHz vs 6000 MHz
  • 2.2x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 76.687 vs 35.15
  • Around 6% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 890.785 vs 838.518
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 26 November 2015 vs 31 March 2014
Core clock speed 1176 MHz vs 930 MHz
Texture fill rate 76.86 GTexel / s vs 44.64 GTexel / s
Pipelines 1024 vs 768
Floating-point performance 2,460 gflops vs 1,428 gflops
Memory clock speed 7012 MHz vs 6000 MHz
Benchmarks
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 76.687 vs 35.15
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 890.785 vs 838.518

Reasons to consider the AMD FirePro W5100

  • 2x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 57.354 vs 28.659
Benchmarks
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 57.354 vs 28.659

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM
GPU 2: AMD FirePro W5100

CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)
GPU 1
GPU 2
76.687
35.15
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)
GPU 1
GPU 2
890.785
838.518
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)
GPU 1
GPU 2
28.659
57.354
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM AMD FirePro W5100
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 76.687 35.15
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 890.785 838.518
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 28.659 57.354
PassMark - G3D Mark 2980
PassMark - G2D Mark 541
Geekbench - OpenCL 12176
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 3.199
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 163.258
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 4397
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3688
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3356
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 4397
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3688
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3356

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM AMD FirePro W5100

Essentials

Architecture Maxwell 2.0 GCN 2.0
Code name GM206 Bonaire
Launch date 26 November 2015 31 March 2014
Place in performance rating 961 636
Type Desktop Workstation

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1201 MHz
Core clock speed 1176 MHz 930 MHz
Floating-point performance 2,460 gflops 1,428 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 1024 768
Texture fill rate 76.86 GTexel / s 44.64 GTexel / s
Transistor count 2,940 million 2,080 million
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 50 Watt

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 4x DisplayPort
DisplayPort count 4
Dual-link DVI support
HD сomponent video output
StereoOutput3D

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None None
Bus support PCIe 3.0
Form factor Full Height / Half Length
Length 171 mm

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_1) 12.0 (12_0)
OpenGL 4.6 4.5

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 4 GB
Memory bandwidth 112.2 GB / s 96 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 7012 MHz 6000 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5