AMD FirePro W9100 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

VS

AMD FirePro W9100

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM FirePro W9100 and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W9100 's Advantages

Released 4 years late

More VRAM (16GB vs 1536GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 177.4GB/s)

2336 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 's Advantages

Lower TDP (250W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W9100 +289%

5.238 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480

1.345 TFLOPS

FirePro W9100

VS

GeForce GTX 480

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Mar 2010

FirePro

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

924 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

384bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

177.4GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

-

SM Count

15

2816

Shading Units

480

176

TMUs

60

64

ROPs

48

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

59.52 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.03 GPixel/s

163.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

42.06 GTexel/s

-

5.238 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1345 GFLOPS

2.619 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

168.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

275W

TDP

250W

600 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

GF100

Hawaii GL44

GPU Variant

GF100-375-A3

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

3.1 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

529 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

2.0

6.3

Shader Model

5.1

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