NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 vs AMD FirePro W4000

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 AMD FirePro W4000

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 and 2GB VRAM FirePro W4000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.9GB/s vs 102.4GB/s)

AMD FirePro W4000 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 11 months late

552 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (75W vs 182W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

0.536 TFLOPS

FirePro W4000 +136%

1.267 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

VS

FirePro W4000

Graphics Card

Sep 2008

Release Date

Aug 2012

GeForce 200

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

999 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

448bit

Memory Bus

256bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

102.4GB/s

Render Config

27

SM Count

-

Compute Units

12

216

Shading Units

768

72

TMUs

48

28

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

224 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

26.40 GPixel/s

41.47 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

39.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

536.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1267 GFLOPS

67.07 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

79.20 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

Pitcairn

G200-103-A2

GPU Variant

Pitcairn LE GL

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

182W

TDP

75W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 2x DisplayPort 1.2

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.3

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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