NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X vs AMD FirePro W5000

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

AMD FirePro W5000

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X and 2GB VRAM FirePro W5000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1709MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 102.4GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro W5000 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X +245%

4.375 TFLOPS

FirePro W5000

1.267 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

VS

FirePro W5000

Graphics Card

Oct 2018

Release Date

Aug 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

-

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

102.4GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

10

SM Count

-

1280

Shading Units

768

80

TMUs

48

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

82.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

26.40 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

39.60 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1267 GFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

79.20 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

75W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 2x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

Pitcairn

GP104-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Pitcairn LE GL

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

28 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

212 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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