AMD FirePro W8000 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 230

VS

AMD FirePro W8000

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM FirePro W8000 and 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 230 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W8000 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

1744 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 225W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W8000 +1967%

3.226 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 230

0.156 TFLOPS

FirePro W8000

VS

GeForce GT 230

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Oct 2009

FirePro

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

-

SM Count

6

1792

Shading Units

48

112

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.40 GPixel/s

100.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.60 GTexel/s

-

3.226 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

156.0 GFLOPS

806.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

225W

TDP

75W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

4x DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

Outputs

No outputs

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

G94B

Tahiti PRO GL

GPU Variant

G94-300-B1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

196 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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