NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 vs AMD FirePro W9000

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

AMD FirePro W9000

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 and 6GB VRAM FirePro W9000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 's Advantages

Lower TDP (250W vs 274W)

AMD FirePro W9000 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (6GB vs 1536GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 177.4GB/s)

1568 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 480

1.345 TFLOPS

FirePro W9000 +196%

3.994 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480

VS

FirePro W9000

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

-

924 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

384bit

177.4GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

15

SM Count

-

480

Shading Units

2048

60

TMUs

128

48

ROPs

32

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

21.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.20 GPixel/s

42.06 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

124.8 GTexel/s

-

1345 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.994 TFLOPS

168.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

998.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

274W

600 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GF100

GPU Name

Tahiti

GF100-375-A3

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT 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

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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