NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition vs AMD FirePro W5000
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM FirePro W5000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FirePro W5000 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 6 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (102.4GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)
656 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (75W vs 125W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition
0.336 TFLOPS
FirePro W5000
+277%
1.267 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Feb 2008
Release Date
Aug 2012
GeForce 8
Generation
FirePro
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
900 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
57.60GB/s
Bandwidth
102.4GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
12
14
SM Count
-
112
Shading Units
768
56
TMUs
48
16
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
64 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
26.40 GPixel/s
33.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
39.60 GTexel/s
-
-
-
336.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1267 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
79.20 GFLOPS
Board Design
125W
TDP
75W
300 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
Outputs
1x DVI
2x DisplayPort 1.2
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G92
GPU Name
Pitcairn
G92-270-A2
GPU Variant
Pitcairn LE GL
Tesla
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.754 billion
Transistors
2.8 billion
324 mm²
Die Size
212 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
5.1
