NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 vs AMD FirePro W8000

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

AMD FirePro W8000

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280 and 4GB VRAM FirePro W8000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W8000 's Advantages

Released 4 years late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 141.7GB/s)

1552 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (225W vs 236W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 280

0.622 TFLOPS

FirePro W8000 +418%

3.226 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280

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

-

1107 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

141.7GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

28

30

SM Count

-

240

Shading Units

1792

80

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

19.26 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

48.16 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

100.8 GTexel/s

-

622.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.226 TFLOPS

77.76 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

806.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

236W

TDP

225W

550 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

Tahiti

G200-300-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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