NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 vs AMD FirePro W5000 DVI

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

AMD FirePro W5000 DVI

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280 and 2GB VRAM FirePro W5000 DVI to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (141.7GB/s vs 102.4GB/s)

AMD FirePro W5000 DVI 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

528 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (75W vs 236W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 280

0.622 TFLOPS

FirePro W5000 DVI +103%

1.267 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280

VS

FirePro W5000 DVI

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Feb 2013

GeForce 200

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1107 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

141.7GB/s

Bandwidth

102.4GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

30

SM Count

-

240

Shading Units

768

80

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

19.26 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

26.40 GPixel/s

48.16 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

39.60 GTexel/s

-

622.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1267 GFLOPS

77.76 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

79.20 GFLOPS

Board Design

236W

TDP

75W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

Pitcairn

G200-300-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

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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