NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 vs AMD FirePro W8000

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 AMD FirePro W8000

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 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 480 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (177.4GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)

AMD FirePro W8000 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

1312 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (225W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 480

1.345 TFLOPS

FirePro W8000 +139%

3.226 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480

VS

FirePro W8000

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

1375 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

177.4GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/s

Render Config

15

SM Count

-

Compute Units

28

480

Shading Units

1792

60

TMUs

112

48

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

21.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

42.06 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

100.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1345 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.226 TFLOPS

168.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

806.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GF100

GPU Name

Tahiti

GF100-375-A3

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO GL

Fermi

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3.1 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

529 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

225W

600 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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