AMD FirePro W8100 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

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AMD FirePro W8100 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM FirePro W8100 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 W8100 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 133.9GB/s)

2112 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (215W vs 220W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W8100 +287%

4.219 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

1.089 TFLOPS

FirePro W8100

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GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

Graphics Card

Jun 2014

Release Date

Unknown

FirePro

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

837 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1280MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

320bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

133.9GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

14

40

Compute Units

-

2560

Shading Units

448

160

TMUs

56

64

ROPs

40

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

640 KB

Theoretical Performance

52.74 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.02 GPixel/s

131.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

34.05 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

4.219 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1089 GFLOPS

2.109 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

GT215

Hawaii GL40

GPU Variant

GT215-400-A2

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

0.727 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

144 mm²

Board Design

220W

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 Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.0

6.3

Shader Model

5.1

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