NVIDIA GeForce 6800 vs AMD FirePro W8000

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 6800

AMD FirePro W8000

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 6800 and 4GB VRAM FirePro W8000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W8000 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 19.20GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

Score

GeForce 6800

VS

FirePro W8000

Graphics Card

Nov 2004

Release Date

Jun 2012

GeForce 6 PCIe

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

300 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

19.20GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

28

-

Shading Units

1792

12

TMUs

112

8

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

-

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

3.900 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

100.8 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

3.226 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

806.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

225W

200 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

NV41

GPU Name

Tahiti

-

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO GL

Curie

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

130 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.19 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

225 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

9.0c (9_3)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

3.0

Shader Model

5.1

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