NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X vs AMD FirePro W5000 DVI

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

AMD FirePro W5000 DVI

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X and 2GB VRAM FirePro W5000 DVI to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X 's Advantages

Boost Clock1709MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 102.4GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro W5000 DVI 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X +245%

4.375 TFLOPS

FirePro W5000 DVI

1.267 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

VS

FirePro W5000 DVI

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Feb 2013

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

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

256.3GB/s

Bandwidth

102.4GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

10

SM Count

-

1280

Shading Units

768

80

TMUs

48

64

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

109.4 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

2x DVI

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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