NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM vs ATI FirePro V7800

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM and ATI FirePro V7800 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 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps).

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

ATI FirePro V7800

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 7 month(s) later
Around 68% higher core clock speed: 1176 MHz vs 700 MHz
Around 53% higher texture fill rate: 76.86 GTexel / s vs 50.4 GTexel / s
Around 22% better floating-point performance: 2,460 gflops vs 2,016.0 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2 GB
Around 75% higher memory clock speed: 7012 MHz vs 4000 MHz
5.1x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 76.687 vs 15.084

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	26 November 2015 vs 26 April 2010
Core clock speed	1176 MHz vs 700 MHz
Texture fill rate	76.86 GTexel / s vs 50.4 GTexel / s
Floating-point performance	2,460 gflops vs 2,016.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 2 GB
Memory clock speed	7012 MHz vs 4000 MHz
Benchmarks
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	76.687 vs 15.084

Reasons to consider the ATI FirePro V7800

Around 41% higher pipelines: 1440 vs 1024
Around 26% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 1124.892 vs 890.785
Around 38% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 39.448 vs 28.659

Specifications (specs)
Pipelines	1440 vs 1024
Benchmarks
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	1124.892 vs 890.785
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	39.448 vs 28.659

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM
GPU 2: ATI FirePro V7800

CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)

GPU 1

GPU 2

76.687

15.084

CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)

GPU 1

GPU 2

890.785

1124.892

CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)

GPU 1

GPU 2

28.659

39.448

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM	ATI FirePro V7800
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	76.687	15.084
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	890.785	1124.892
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	28.659	39.448
PassMark - G3D Mark		2028
PassMark - G2D Mark		307
Geekbench - OpenCL		4894
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		1.448
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		181.538
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		3721
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		63

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM	ATI FirePro V7800
Essentials
Architecture	Maxwell 2.0	TeraScale 2
Code name	GM206	Cypress
Launch date	26 November 2015	26 April 2010
Place in performance rating	1007	1010
Type	Desktop	Workstation
Launch price (MSRP)		$759
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1201 MHz
Core clock speed	1176 MHz	700 MHz
Floating-point performance	2,460 gflops	2,016.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	1024	1440
Texture fill rate	76.86 GTexel / s	50.4 GTexel / s
Transistor count	2,940 million	2,154 million
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		150 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	1x 6-pin
Length		254 mm
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_1)	11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.6	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	112.2 GB / s	128.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	7012 MHz	4000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5