NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 vs AMD FirePro W5000

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 AMD FirePro W5000

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470 and 2GB VRAM FirePro W5000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (133.9GB/s vs 102.4GB/s)

AMD FirePro W5000 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

320 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (75W vs 215W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 470

1.089 TFLOPS

FirePro W5000 +16%

1.267 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 470

VS

FirePro W5000

Graphics Card

Mar 2010

Release Date

Aug 2012

GeForce 400

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

837 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

1280MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

320bit

Memory Bus

256bit

133.9GB/s

Bandwidth

102.4GB/s

Render Config

14

SM Count

-

Compute Units

12

448

Shading Units

768

56

TMUs

48

40

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

640 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

17.02 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

26.40 GPixel/s

34.05 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

39.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1089 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1267 GFLOPS

136.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

79.20 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GF100

GPU Name

Pitcairn

GF100-275-A3

GPU Variant

Pitcairn LE GL

Fermi

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3.1 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

529 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

215W

TDP

75W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

1x DVI 2x DisplayPort 1.2

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

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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