NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 vs AMD FirePro W600

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 and 2GB VRAM FirePro W600 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 64.00GB/s)

AMD FirePro W600 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

32 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (75W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 480 +75%

1.345 TFLOPS

FirePro W600

0.768 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480

VS

FirePro W600

Graphics Card

Mar 2010

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

-

924 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

177.4GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

15

SM Count

-

Compute Units

8

480

Shading Units

512

60

TMUs

32

48

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

21.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.00 GPixel/s

42.06 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

24.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1345 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

768.0 GFLOPS

168.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

48.00 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GF100

GPU Name

Cape Verde

GF100-375-A3

GPU Variant

Cape Verde PRO GL

Fermi

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3.1 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

529 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

75W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

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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