NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 vs AMD FirePro S10000 Passive 12GB

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 AMD FirePro S10000 Passive 12GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280 and 6GB VRAM FirePro S10000 Passive 12GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 's Advantages

Lower TDP (236W vs 375W)

AMD FirePro S10000 Passive 12GB 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock950MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 141.7GB/s)

1552 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 280

0.622 TFLOPS

FirePro S10000 Passive 12GB +447%

3.405 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280

VS

FirePro S10000 Passive 12GB

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Mar 2014

GeForce 200

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

825 MHz

-

Boost Clock

950 MHz

1107 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

384bit

141.7GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

30

SM Count

-

Compute Units

28

240

Shading Units

1792

80

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

19.26 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

30.40 GPixel/s

48.16 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

106.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

622.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.405 TFLOPS

77.76 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

851.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

Tahiti

G200-300-A2

GPU Variant

Orthrus

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

Board Design

236W

TDP

375W

550 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

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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