NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X vs AMD FirePro W8100

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X AMD FirePro W8100

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X and 8GB VRAM FirePro W8100 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1709MHz

Lower TDP (120W vs 220W)

AMD FirePro W8100 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X +3%

4.375 TFLOPS

FirePro W8100

4.219 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

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FirePro W8100

Graphics Card

Oct 2018

Release Date

Jun 2014

GeForce 10

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

-

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

512bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

10

SM Count

-

Compute Units

40

1280

Shading Units

2560

80

TMUs

160

48

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

82.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

52.74 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

131.8 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.219 TFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

2.109 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

Hawaii

GP104-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Hawaii GL40

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

28 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

220W

300 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.3

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