NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 vs AMD FirePro S10000 Passive

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 AMD FirePro S10000 Passive

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 and 3GB VRAM FirePro S10000 Passive to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 's Advantages

Lower TDP (250W vs 375W)

AMD FirePro S10000 Passive 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock950MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 177.4GB/s)

1312 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 480

1.345 TFLOPS

FirePro S10000 Passive +153%

3.405 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480

VS

FirePro S10000 Passive

Graphics Card

Mar 2010

Release Date

Nov 2012

GeForce 400

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

825 MHz

-

Boost Clock

950 MHz

924 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

384bit

177.4GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

15

SM Count

-

Compute Units

28

480

Shading Units

1792

60

TMUs

112

48

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

21.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

30.40 GPixel/s

42.06 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

106.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1345 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.405 TFLOPS

168.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

851.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GF100

GPU Name

Tahiti

GF100-375-A3

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO GL

Fermi

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3.1 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

529 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

375W

600 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

2.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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