NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs AMD FirePro W8100

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

AMD FirePro W8100

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 and 8GB VRAM FirePro W8100 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages

Released 7 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

Lower TDP (120W vs 220W)

AMD FirePro W8100 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960

2.413 TFLOPS

FirePro W8100 +74%

4.219 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960

VS

FirePro W8100

Graphics Card

Jan 2015

Release Date

Jun 2014

GeForce 900

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

-

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

512bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

40

-

1024

Shading Units

2560

64

TMUs

160

32

ROPs

64

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

37.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

52.74 GPixel/s

75.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

131.8 GTexel/s

-

2.413 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.219 TFLOPS

75.39 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

2.109 TFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

220W

300 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

Hawaii

GM206-300-A1

GPU Variant

Hawaii GL40

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

5.2

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.3

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