AMD FirePro W8000 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 550

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM FirePro W8000 and 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 550 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W8000 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 2 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Quadro FX 550 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 225W)

Score

FirePro W8000

VS

Quadro FX 550

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Apr 2006

FirePro

Generation

Quadro FX Curie

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

128MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

28

Compute Units

-

1792

Shading Units

-

112

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.440 GPixel/s

100.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.880 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.226 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

806.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

NV43

Tahiti PRO GL

GPU Variant

NV43 GL

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

110 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.146 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

154 mm²

Board Design

225W

TDP

30W

550 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

4x DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

3.0

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