AMD FirePro W8000 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jun 2012
Sep 2014
Generation
FirePro
GeForce 900
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
1753 MHz
Base Clock
-
1127 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1216 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
176.0GB/s
224.4GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
28
-
Shading Units
1792
2048
TMUs
112
128
ROPs
32
64
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
512 KB
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
28.80 GPixel/s
77.82 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
100.8 GTexel/s
155.6 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
3.226 TFLOPS
4.981 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
806.4 GFLOPS
155.6 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Tahiti
GM204
GPU Variant
Tahiti PRO GL
GM204-400-A1
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Maxwell 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
4.313 billion
5.2 billion
Die Size
352 mm²
398 mm²
Board Design
TDP
225W
165W
Suggested PSU
550 W
450 W
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.21x SDI
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
2x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.3
Shader Model
5.1
6.4
CUDA
-
5.2