AMD FirePro W8100 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

VS

AMD FirePro W8100

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM FirePro W8100 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 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 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 105.8GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1188MHz

Lower TDP (90W vs 220W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W8100 +131%

4.219 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950

1.825 TFLOPS

FirePro W8100

VS

GeForce GTX 950

Graphics Card

Jun 2014

Release Date

Aug 2015

FirePro

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1024 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1188 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1653 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

105.8GB/s

Render Config

40

Compute Units

-

2560

Shading Units

768

160

TMUs

48

64

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

52.74 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.02 GPixel/s

131.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

57.02 GTexel/s

-

4.219 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.825 TFLOPS

2.109 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

57.02 GFLOPS

Board Design

220W

TDP

90W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

4x DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

GM206

Hawaii GL40

GPU Variant

GM206-250-A1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

228 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

6.3

Shader Model

6.4

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