AMD FirePro S9050 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

VS

AMD FirePro S9050

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM FirePro S9050 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro S9050 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (12GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 141.7GB/s)

1552 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (225W vs 236W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro S9050 +418%

3.226 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280

0.622 TFLOPS

FirePro S9050

VS

GeForce GTX 280

Graphics Card

Aug 2014

Release Date

Jun 2008

FirePro

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1107 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

512bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

141.7GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

-

SM Count

30

1792

Shading Units

240

112

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.26 GPixel/s

100.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

48.16 GTexel/s

-

3.226 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

622.1 GFLOPS

806.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

77.76 GFLOPS

Board Design

225W

TDP

236W

550 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GT200

Tahiti PRO GL

GPU Variant

G200-300-A2

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

576 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.3

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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