NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 vs AMD FirePro W5100

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

AMD FirePro W5100

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 and 4GB VRAM FirePro W5100 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 's Advantages

Boost Clock1058MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro W5100 's Advantages

Released 2 years late

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Lower TDP (50W vs 195W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 680 +127%

3.25 TFLOPS

FirePro W5100

1.428 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680

VS

FirePro W5100

Graphics Card

Mar 2012

Release Date

Mar 2014

GeForce 600

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1006 MHz

Base Clock

-

1058 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.3GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

-

1536

Shading Units

768

128

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

33.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

14.88 GPixel/s

135.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

44.64 GTexel/s

-

3.250 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1428 GFLOPS

135.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

89.28 GFLOPS

Board Design

195W

TDP

50W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.2

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

Bonaire

GK104-400-A2

GPU Variant

Bonaire PRO GL

Kepler

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.1

Vulkan

1.2

3.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.3

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