NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs AMD FirePro W8000
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 550 Ti and 4GB VRAM FirePro W8000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti 's Advantages
Lower TDP (116W vs 225W)
AMD FirePro W8000 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 3 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 98.50GB/s)
1600 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 550 Ti
0.691 TFLOPS
FirePro W8000
+366%
3.226 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2011
Release Date
Jun 2012
GeForce 500
Generation
FirePro
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1026 MHz
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
192bit
Memory Bus
256bit
98.50GB/s
Bandwidth
176.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
28
4
SM Count
-
192
Shading Units
1792
32
TMUs
112
24
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
384 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
7.200 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
28.80 GPixel/s
28.80 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
100.8 GTexel/s
-
-
-
691.2 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.226 TFLOPS
57.60 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
806.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
116W
TDP
225W
300 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.2
1x SDI
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GF116
GPU Name
Tahiti
GF116-400-A1
GPU Variant
Tahiti PRO GL
Fermi 2.0
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
28 nm
1.17 billion
Transistors
4.313 billion
238 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
2.1
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
5.1
