AMD FirePro W8000 vs NVIDIA A30 PCIe

VS

AMD FirePro W8000

NVIDIA A30 PCIe

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM FirePro W8000 and 24GB VRAM A30 PCIe to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA A30 PCIe 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1440MHz

More VRAM (24GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (165W vs 225W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W8000

3.226 TFLOPS

A30 PCIe +219%

10.32 TFLOPS

FirePro W8000

VS

A30 PCIe

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Apr 2021

FirePro

Generation

Tesla Ampere

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

930 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1440 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1215 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2e

256bit

Memory Bus

3072bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

933.1GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

-

SM Count

56

1792

Shading Units

3584

112

TMUs

224

32

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

224

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

192 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

24 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

138.2 GPixel/s

100.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

322.6 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

10.32 TFLOPS

3.226 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.32 TFLOPS

806.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

5.161 TFLOPS

Board Design

225W

TDP

165W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

4x DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

Outputs

No outputs

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GA100

Tahiti PRO GL

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

7 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

54.2 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

826 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

N/A

4.6

OpenGL

N/A

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

8.0

5.1

Shader Model

N/A

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