NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 vs AMD FirePro W4300

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

AMD FirePro W4300

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 and 4GB VRAM FirePro W4300 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.9GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

AMD FirePro W4300 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 896GB)

576 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 182W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260

0.477 TFLOPS

FirePro W4300 +199%

1.428 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260

VS

FirePro W4300

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Dec 2015

GeForce 200

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

999 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

448bit

Memory Bus

128bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

24

SM Count

-

192

Shading Units

768

64

TMUs

48

28

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

224 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

14.88 GPixel/s

36.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

44.64 GTexel/s

-

476.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1428 GFLOPS

59.62 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

89.28 GFLOPS

Board Design

182W

TDP

50W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

Bonaire

G200-100-A2

GPU Variant

Bonaire PRO GL

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.3

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.3

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