NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 vs AMD FirePro W5100

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

AMD FirePro W5100

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 and 4GB VRAM FirePro W5100 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (177.4GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

AMD FirePro W5100 's Advantages

Released 4 years late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1536GB)

288 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 480

1.345 TFLOPS

FirePro W5100 +6%

1.428 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480

VS

FirePro W5100

Graphics Card

Mar 2010

Release Date

Mar 2014

GeForce 400

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

924 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

177.4GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

15

SM Count

-

480

Shading Units

768

60

TMUs

48

ROPs

16

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

21.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

14.88 GPixel/s

42.06 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

44.64 GTexel/s

-

1345 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1428 GFLOPS

168.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

89.28 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

50W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF100

GPU Name

Bonaire

GF100-375-A3

GPU Variant

Bonaire PRO GL

Fermi

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3.1 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

529 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

2.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.3

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