AMD FirePro W8000 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

VS

AMD FirePro W8000

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM FirePro W8000 and 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W8000 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 1280GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 133.9GB/s)

1344 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (215W vs 225W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W8000 +196%

3.226 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

1.089 TFLOPS

FirePro W8000

VS

GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Unknown

FirePro

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

837 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1280MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

320bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

133.9GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

-

SM Count

14

1792

Shading Units

448

112

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

40

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

640 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.02 GPixel/s

100.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

34.05 GTexel/s

-

3.226 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1089 GFLOPS

806.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

225W

TDP

215W

550 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

4x DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GT215

Tahiti PRO GL

GPU Variant

GT215-400-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

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.0

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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