NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition vs AMD FirePro W8000

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition AMD FirePro W8000

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition 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 470 PhysX Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (215W vs 225W)

AMD FirePro W8000 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 133.9GB/s)

1344 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

1.089 TFLOPS

FirePro W8000 +196%

3.226 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

VS

FirePro W8000

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Jun 2012

GeForce 400

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

837 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

1280MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

320bit

Memory Bus

256bit

133.9GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/s

Render Config

14

SM Count

-

Compute Units

28

448

Shading Units

1792

56

TMUs

112

40

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

640 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

17.02 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

34.05 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

100.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1089 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.226 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

806.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GT215

GPU Name

Tahiti

GT215-400-A2

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO GL

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.727 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

144 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

215W

TDP

225W

550 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

2.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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