NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 vs AMD FirePro W9100

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

AMD FirePro W9100

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 and 16GB VRAM FirePro W9100 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 275W)

AMD FirePro W9100 's Advantages

Released 4 years late

More VRAM (16GB vs 1536GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 177.4GB/s)

2336 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 480

1.345 TFLOPS

FirePro W9100 +289%

5.238 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480

VS

FirePro W9100

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

1250 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

512bit

177.4GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

44

15

SM Count

-

480

Shading Units

2816

60

TMUs

176

48

ROPs

64

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

21.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

59.52 GPixel/s

42.06 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

163.7 GTexel/s

-

1345 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.238 TFLOPS

168.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

2.619 TFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

275W

600 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GF100

GPU Name

Hawaii

GF100-375-A3

GPU Variant

Hawaii GL44

Fermi

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3.1 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

529 mm²

Die Size

438 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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