AMD FirePro W8000 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 X2

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AMD FirePro W8000 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM FirePro W8000 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W8000 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

1456 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 X2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (160W vs 225W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W8000 +242%

3.226 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 460 X2

0.942 TFLOPS

FirePro W8000

VS

GeForce GTX 460 X2

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Mar 2011

FirePro

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

7

28

Compute Units

-

1792

Shading Units

336

112

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.814 GPixel/s

100.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

39.26 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.226 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

941.5 GFLOPS

806.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

78.46 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GF104

Tahiti PRO GL

GPU Variant

GF104-300-KB-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

1.95 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

332 mm²

Board Design

225W

TDP

160W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

4x DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

Outputs

3x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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