AMD FirePro W8100 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 230

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM FirePro W8100 and 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 230 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W8100 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 8 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

2512 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 220W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W8100 +2604%

4.219 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 230

0.156 TFLOPS

FirePro W8100

VS

GeForce GT 230

Graphics Card

Jun 2014

Release Date

Oct 2009

FirePro

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

6

40

Compute Units

-

2560

Shading Units

48

160

TMUs

24

64

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

52.74 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.40 GPixel/s

131.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

4.219 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

156.0 GFLOPS

2.109 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

G94B

Hawaii GL40

GPU Variant

G94-300-B1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

196 mm²

Board Design

220W

TDP

75W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

4x DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

Outputs

No outputs

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.3

Shader Model

4.0

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