NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 vs AMD FirePro W8000

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

AMD FirePro W8000

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 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 950 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1188MHz

Lower TDP (90W vs 225W)

AMD FirePro W8000 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 105.8GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 950

1.825 TFLOPS

FirePro W8000 +76%

3.226 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950

VS

FirePro W8000

Graphics Card

Aug 2015

Release Date

Jun 2012

GeForce 900

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1024 MHz

Base Clock

-

1188 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1653 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

105.8GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

28

-

768

Shading Units

1792

48

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

38.02 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

57.02 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

100.8 GTexel/s

-

1.825 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.226 TFLOPS

57.02 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

806.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

90W

TDP

225W

250 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

Tahiti

GM206-250-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO GL

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

5.2

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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