NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 vs AMD FirePro W5000

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

AMD FirePro W5000

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 and 2GB VRAM FirePro W5000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 102.4GB/s)

AMD FirePro W5000 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 1536GB)

256 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (75W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

1.078 TFLOPS

FirePro W5000 +17%

1.267 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

VS

FirePro W5000

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Aug 2012

GeForce 400

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

700 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

102.4GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

16

SM Count

-

512

Shading Units

768

64

TMUs

48

ROPs

32

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

26.40 GPixel/s

33.73 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

39.60 GTexel/s

-

1078 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1267 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

79.20 GFLOPS

Board Design

375W

TDP

75W

750 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

1x DVI 2x DisplayPort 1.2

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF100

GPU Name

Pitcairn

GF100-ES-DT1-A2

GPU Variant

Pitcairn LE GL

Fermi

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3.1 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

529 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

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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