AMD FirePro W8100 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES

VS

AMD FirePro W8100

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM FirePro W8100 and 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W8100 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 1280GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 128.3GB/s)

2224 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES 's Advantages

Lower TDP (160W vs 220W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W8100 +303%

4.219 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES

1.046 TFLOPS

FirePro W8100

VS

GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES

Graphics Card

Jun 2014

Release Date

Sep 2011

FirePro

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1002 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1280MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

128.3GB/s

Render Config

40

Compute Units

-

SM Count

7

2560

Shading Units

336

160

TMUs

56

64

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

52.74 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.91 GPixel/s

131.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

43.62 GTexel/s

-

4.219 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1046 GFLOPS

2.109 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

87.19 GFLOPS

Board Design

220W

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

Hawaii

GPU Name

GF114

Hawaii GL40

GPU Variant

GF114-400-A1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

1.95 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

332 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

6.3

Shader Model

5.1

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