AMD FirePro W9000 vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS

VS

AMD FirePro W9000

NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM FirePro W9000 and 256MB VRAM GeForce 6800 GS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W9000 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (6GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

Score

FirePro W9000

VS

GeForce 6800 GS

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Nov 2005

FirePro

Generation

GeForce 6 PCIe

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

-

128

TMUs

12

32

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

31.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.400 GPixel/s

124.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.100 GTexel/s

-

3.994 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

998.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

274W

TDP

Unknown

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

NV41

Tahiti XT GL

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

130 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.19 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

225 mm²

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

-

5.1

Shader Model

3.0

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