NVIDIA GeForce 6800 vs AMD FirePro W9000

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 6800

AMD FirePro W9000

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

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W9000 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (6GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 19.20GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

Score

GeForce 6800

VS

FirePro W9000

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

6GB

DDR

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

19.20GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

-

Shading Units

2048

12

TMUs

128

8

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

-

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.20 GPixel/s

3.900 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

124.8 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

3.994 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

998.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

274W

200 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

NV41

GPU Name

Tahiti

-

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT 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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