AMD FirePro W8000 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2

VS

AMD FirePro W8000

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM FirePro W8000 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 v2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W8000 's Advantages

Released 9 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 96.19GB/s)

1456 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (160W vs 225W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W8000 +208%

3.226 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 460 v2

1.046 TFLOPS

FirePro W8000

VS

GeForce GTX 460 v2

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Sep 2011

FirePro

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1002 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

96.19GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

-

SM Count

7

1792

Shading Units

336

112

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

24

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

384 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.91 GPixel/s

100.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

43.62 GTexel/s

-

3.226 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1046 GFLOPS

806.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

87.19 GFLOPS

Board Design

225W

TDP

160W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

4x DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GF114

Tahiti PRO GL

GPU Variant

GF114-400-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

1.95 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

332 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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