FirePro D700 vs GeForce GTX TITAN X

Place in the ranking	158	370
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	8.10	no data
Power efficiency	9.33	3.56
Architecture	Maxwell 2.0 (2014−2019)	GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code name	GM200	Tahiti
Market segment	Desktop	Workstation
Release date	17 March 2015 (9 years ago)	18 January 2014 (10 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$999	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	3072	2048
Core clock speed	1000 MHz	850 MHz
Boost clock speed	1075 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	8,000 million	4,313 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	250 Watt	274 Watt
Texture fill rate	209.1	108.8
Floating-point processing power	6.691 TFLOPS	3.482 TFLOPS
ROPs	96	32
TMUs	192	128

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Bus support	PCI Express 3.0	no data
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	267 mm	279 mm
Height	4.376" (11.1 cm)	no data
Width	2-slot	2-slot
Recommended system power (PSU)	600 Watt	no data
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin	no data
SLI options	4x	-

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	12 GB	6 GB
Memory bus width	384 Bit	384 Bit
Memory clock speed	7.0 GB/s	1370 MHz
Memory bandwidth	336.5 GB/s	263.0 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors	Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2	6x mini-DisplayPort, 1x SDI
Multi monitor support	4 displays	no data
HDMI	+	-
HDCP	+	-
Maximum VGA resolution	2048x1536	no data
Audio input for HDMI	Internal	no data

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

GameStream	+	-
GeForce ShadowPlay	+	-
GPU Boost	2.0	no data
GameWorks	+	-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	12 (12_1)	12 (11_1)
Shader Model	6.4	5.1
OpenGL	4.5	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	1.2
Vulkan	1.1.126	1.2.131
CUDA	5.2	-

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	33.46	14.01
Recency	17 March 2015	18 January 2014
Maximum RAM amount	12 GB	6 GB
Power consumption (TDP)	250 Watt	274 Watt

GTX TITAN X has a 138.8% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 1 year, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and 9.6% lower power consumption.

The GeForce GTX TITAN X is our recommended choice as it beats the FirePro D700 in performance tests.

Be aware that GeForce GTX TITAN X is a desktop card while FirePro D700 is a workstation one.

Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.