NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs AMD FirePro W8000

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

AMD FirePro W8000

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 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 1080 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1733MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.3GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (180W vs 225W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1080 +175%

8.873 TFLOPS

FirePro W8000

3.226 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080

VS

FirePro W8000

Graphics Card

May 2016

Release Date

Jun 2012

GeForce 10

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1607 MHz

Base Clock

-

1733 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1251 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

320.3GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

28

20

SM Count

-

2560

Shading Units

1792

160

TMUs

112

64

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

110.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

277.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

100.8 GTexel/s

138.6 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

8.873 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.226 TFLOPS

277.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

806.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

180W

TDP

225W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

Tahiti

GP104-400-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO GL

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

28 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

314 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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