NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 vs AMD FirePro W8000

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

AMD FirePro W8000

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 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 260 's Advantages

Lower TDP (182W vs 225W)

AMD FirePro W8000 's Advantages

Released 4 years late

More VRAM (4GB vs 896GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

1600 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260

0.477 TFLOPS

FirePro W8000 +576%

3.226 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260

VS

FirePro W8000

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

1375 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

448bit

Memory Bus

256bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

28

24

SM Count

-

192

Shading Units

1792

64

TMUs

112

28

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

224 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

36.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

100.8 GTexel/s

-

476.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.226 TFLOPS

59.62 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

806.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

182W

TDP

225W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

Tahiti

G200-100-A2

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO GL

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

352 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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