AMD FirePro S10000 Passive vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 420 OEM

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AMD FirePro S10000 Passive NVIDIA GeForce GT 420 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM FirePro S10000 Passive and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 420 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro S10000 Passive 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock950MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

1744 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 420 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro S10000 Passive +2441%

3.405 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 420 OEM

0.134 TFLOPS

FirePro S10000 Passive

VS

GeForce GT 420 OEM

Graphics Card

Nov 2012

Release Date

Sep 2010

FirePro

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

825 MHz

Base Clock

-

950 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

1

28

Compute Units

-

1792

Shading Units

48

112

TMUs

4

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

30.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.400 GPixel/s

106.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.800 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.405 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

134.4 GFLOPS

851.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

11.20 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GF108

Tahiti PRO GL

GPU Variant

GF108-200-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.585 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

116 mm²

Board Design

375W

TDP

50W

750 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

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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