AMD FirePro W2100 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

VS

AMD FirePro W2100

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro W2100 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W2100 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock680MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (28.80GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

288 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (26W vs 47W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W2100 +472%

0.435 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT

0.076 TFLOPS

FirePro W2100

VS

GeForce 8600 GT

Graphics Card

Aug 2014

Release Date

Apr 2007

FirePro

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

630 MHz

Base Clock

-

680 MHz

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

22.40GB/s

Render Config

5

Compute Units

-

SM Count

4

320

Shading Units

32

20

TMUs

16

8

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

5.440 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.320 GPixel/s

13.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.640 GTexel/s

-

435.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

76.16 GFLOPS

27.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

26W

TDP

47W

200 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Oland

GPU Name

G84

-

GPU Variant

G84-303-A2

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.95 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

77 mm²

Die Size

169 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

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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