NVIDIA GeForce GTX 490 vs AMD FirePro W8100

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 490 AMD FirePro W8100

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 490 and 8GB VRAM FirePro W8100 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W8100 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 164.0GB/s)

2080 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (220W vs 365W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 490

1.166 TFLOPS

FirePro W8100 +261%

4.219 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 490

VS

FirePro W8100

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Jun 2014

GeForce 400

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

854 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

512bit

164.0GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

15

SM Count

-

Compute Units

40

480

Shading Units

2560

60

TMUs

160

48

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

18.24 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

52.74 GPixel/s

36.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

131.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1166 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.219 TFLOPS

145.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

2.109 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GF100

GPU Name

Hawaii

GF100-375-A3

GPU Variant

Hawaii GL40

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

Board Design

365W

TDP

220W

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 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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