AMD FirePro W4100 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

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AMD FirePro W4100

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro W4100 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W4100 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 32.26GB/s)

480 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W4100 +593%

0.645 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

0.093 TFLOPS

FirePro W4100

VS

GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Aug 2014

Release Date

Sep 2007

FirePro

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1008 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

64.00GB/s

Bandwidth

32.26GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

SM Count

4

512

Shading Units

32

TMUs

16

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

10.08 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.400 GPixel/s

20.16 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.80 GTexel/s

-

645.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

92.80 GFLOPS

40.32 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

50W

TDP

75W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Cape Verde

GPU Name

G84

Cape Verde PRO GL

GPU Variant

G84-400-A2

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

123 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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