AMD FirePro W8000 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

VS

AMD FirePro W8000

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM FirePro W8000 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 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 2GB)

256 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 's Advantages

Boost Clock1058MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (195W vs 225W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W8000

3.226 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680

3.25 TFLOPS

FirePro W8000

VS

GeForce GTX 680

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Mar 2012

FirePro

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1006 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1058 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.3GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

-

1792

Shading Units

1536

112

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.86 GPixel/s

100.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

135.4 GTexel/s

-

3.226 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.250 TFLOPS

806.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

135.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

225W

TDP

195W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

4x DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GK104

Tahiti PRO GL

GPU Variant

GK104-400-A2

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.0

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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