NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 vs AMD FirePro W7000

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

AMD FirePro W7000

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 and 4GB VRAM FirePro W7000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W7000 's Advantages

Released 4 years late

More VRAM (4GB vs 896GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

1088 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 182W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260

0.477 TFLOPS

FirePro W7000 +409%

2.432 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260

VS

FirePro W7000

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Jun 2012

GeForce 200

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

999 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

448bit

Memory Bus

256bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

24

SM Count

-

192

Shading Units

1280

64

TMUs

80

28

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

224 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

30.40 GPixel/s

36.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

76.00 GTexel/s

-

476.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.432 TFLOPS

59.62 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

152.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

182W

TDP

150W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.2

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

Pitcairn

G200-100-A2

GPU Variant

Pitcairn XT GL (215-0828073)

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

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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