AMD FirePro W9000 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 512

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AMD FirePro W9000 NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 512

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM FirePro W9000 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GTS 512 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W9000 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 6 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 52.48GB/s)

1920 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 512 's Advantages

Lower TDP (135W vs 274W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W9000 +860%

3.994 TFLOPS

GeForce 8800 GTS 512

0.416 TFLOPS

FirePro W9000

VS

GeForce 8800 GTS 512

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Dec 2007

FirePro

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

820 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

52.48GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

16

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

128

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

31.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.40 GPixel/s

124.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

41.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.994 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

416.0 GFLOPS

998.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

G92

Tahiti XT GL

GPU Variant

G92-400-A2

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

324 mm²

Board Design

274W

TDP

135W

600 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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