NVIDIA GeForce GTX 490 vs AMD FirePro W8000
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 490 and 4GB VRAM FirePro W8000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FirePro W8000 's Advantages
More VRAM (4GB vs 1536GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 164.0GB/s)
1312 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (225W vs 365W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 490
1.166 TFLOPS
FirePro W8000
+176%
3.226 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Unknown
Release Date
Jun 2012
GeForce 400
Generation
FirePro
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
854 MHz
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
Memory
1536MB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
384bit
Memory Bus
256bit
164.0GB/s
Bandwidth
176.0GB/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
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
18.24 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
28.80 GPixel/s
36.48 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
100.8 GTexel/s
-
-
-
1166 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.226 TFLOPS
145.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
806.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
365W
TDP
225W
750 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
3x DVI
1x mini-DisplayPort
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.2
1x SDI
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
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
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
