AMD FirePro W4000 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

VS

AMD FirePro W4000

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro W4000 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 W4000 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (102.4GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

736 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (47W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W4000 +1567%

1.267 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT

0.076 TFLOPS

FirePro W4000

VS

GeForce 8600 GT

Graphics Card

Aug 2012

Release Date

Apr 2007

FirePro

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

102.4GB/s

Bandwidth

22.40GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

SM Count

4

768

Shading Units

32

48

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

26.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.320 GPixel/s

39.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.640 GTexel/s

-

1267 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

76.16 GFLOPS

79.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

75W

TDP

47W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 2x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

G84

Pitcairn LE GL

GPU Variant

G84-303-A2

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

212 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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