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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 490 vs AMD FirePro S10000

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 490 and 3GB VRAM FirePro S10000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 490 's Advantages
Lower TDP (365W vs 375W)
AMD FirePro S10000 's Advantages
Boost Clock950MHz
More VRAM (3GB vs 1536GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 164.0GB/s)
1312 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 490
1.166 TFLOPS
FirePro S10000 +192%
3.405 TFLOPS

Graphics Card

Unknown
Release Date
Nov 2012
GeForce 400
Generation
FirePro
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-
Base Clock
825 MHz
-
Boost Clock
950 MHz
854 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz

Memory

1536MB
Memory Size
3GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
384bit
Memory Bus
384bit
164.0GB/s
Bandwidth
240.0GB/s

Render Config

-
Compute Units
28
15
SM Count
-
480
Shading Units
1792
60
TMUs
112
48
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
768 KB
L2 Cache
768 KB
-
-
-

Theoretical Performance

18.24 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
30.40 GPixel/s
36.48 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
106.4 GTexel/s
-
-
-
1166 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.405 TFLOPS
145.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
851.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

365W
TDP
375W
750 W
Suggested PSU
750 W
3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort
Outputs
1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GF100
GPU Name
Tahiti
GF100-375-A3
GPU Variant
Zaphod
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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