AMD FirePro W5000 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 720

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro W5000 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 720 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W5000 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (102.4GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

576 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 1 months late

Lower TDP (19W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W5000 +314%

1.267 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 720

0.306 TFLOPS

FirePro W5000

VS

GeForce GT 720

Graphics Card

Aug 2012

Release Date

Sep 2014

FirePro

Generation

GeForce 700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

102.4GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

12

Compute Units

-

768

Shading Units

192

48

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

26.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.188 GPixel/s

39.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.75 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1267 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

306.0 GFLOPS

79.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

12.75 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

GK208B

Pitcairn LE GL

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Kepler 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

1.02 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

87 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

19W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 2x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x VGA

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.5

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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