AMD FirePro W8000 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 240

VS

AMD FirePro W8000

NVIDIA GeForce GT 240

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM FirePro W8000 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 240 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 7 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 54.40GB/s)

1696 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 's Advantages

Lower TDP (69W vs 225W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W8000 +1155%

3.226 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 240

0.257 TFLOPS

FirePro W8000

VS

GeForce GT 240

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Nov 2009

FirePro

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

850 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

54.40GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

-

SM Count

12

1792

Shading Units

96

112

TMUs

32

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

100.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.60 GTexel/s

-

3.226 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

257.3 GFLOPS

806.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

225W

TDP

69W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

4x DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1x VGA

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GT215

Tahiti PRO GL

GPU Variant

GT215-450-A2

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.727 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

144 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.2

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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