AMD FirePro W8000 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

VS

AMD FirePro W8000

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM FirePro W8000 and 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W8000 's Advantages

Released 4 years late

More VRAM (4GB vs 896GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

1600 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 's Advantages

Lower TDP (182W vs 225W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W8000 +576%

3.226 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260

0.477 TFLOPS

FirePro W8000

VS

GeForce GTX 260

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Jun 2008

FirePro

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

999 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

896MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

448bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

111.9GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

-

SM Count

24

1792

Shading Units

192

112

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

28

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

224 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.13 GPixel/s

100.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

36.86 GTexel/s

-

3.226 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

476.9 GFLOPS

806.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

59.62 GFLOPS

Board Design

225W

TDP

182W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

4x DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GT200

Tahiti PRO GL

GPU Variant

G200-100-A2

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

576 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

1.3

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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