NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB vs AMD FirePro W8000

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

AMD FirePro W8000

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 5GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB and 4GB VRAM FirePro W8000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1709MHz

More VRAM (5GB vs 4GB)

Lower TDP (120W vs 225W)

AMD FirePro W8000 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 160.2GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB +35%

4.375 TFLOPS

FirePro W8000

3.226 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

VS

FirePro W8000

Graphics Card

Dec 2017

Release Date

Jun 2012

GeForce 10

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

-

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

5GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

160bit

Memory Bus

256bit

160.2GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

28

10

SM Count

-

1280

Shading Units

1792

80

TMUs

112

40

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1280 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

68.36 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

100.8 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.226 TFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

806.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

225W

300 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

Tahiti

GP106-350-K3-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO GL

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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