GPU Comparison

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AMD

RADEON

AMD FirePro W8000

CORE STATE Tahiti

VRAM 4 GB

CLOCK SPEED —

TDP 225 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE GCN 1.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2012

VS

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

Quadro M4000

CORE STATE GM204

VRAM 8 GB

CLOCK SPEED —

TDP 120 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE Maxwell 2.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2015

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

geekbench_opencl

24,518

20,128

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

N/A

680

geekbench_vulkan

N/A

24,640

passmark_directx_10

N/A

33

passmark_directx_11

N/A

49

passmark_directx_12

N/A

26

passmark_directx_9

N/A

113

passmark_g2d

N/A

673

passmark_g3d

N/A

6,680

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

2,660

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

FirePro W8000

Quadro M4000

Core Specs

Shading Units

1,792

1,664 -7.1%

Shaders

1,792

1,664 -7.1%

TMUs

112

104 -7.1%

ROPs

32

64 +100.0%

Compute Units

28

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Clocks

GPU Clock

900 MHz

773 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz 5.5 Gbps effective

1502 MHz 6 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

4 GB

8 GB

VRAM (MB)

4,096

8,192 +100.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Memory Bus

256 bit

256 bit

Bandwidth

176.0 GB/s

192.3 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

48 KB (per SMM)

L2 Cache

512 KB

2 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

49.47 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

100.8 GTexel/s

80.39 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

3.226 TFLOPS

2.573 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

806.4 GFLOPS (1:4)

80.39 GFLOPS (1:32)

Power

TDP

225 W

120 W

TDP (W)

225

120 -46.7%

Suggested PSU

550 W

300 W

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

1x 6-pin

Architecture

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Maxwell 2.0

GPU Name

Tahiti

GM204

Generation

FirePro GCN (Wx000)

Quadro Maxwell (Mx000)

Process Size

28 nm

28 nm

Transistors

4,313 million

5,200 million

Die Size

352 mm²

398 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

12.3M / mm²

13.1M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (11_1)

12 (12_1)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.2.170

1.4

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

3.0

CUDA

—

5.2

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Single-slot

Length

279 mm 11 inches

241 mm 9.5 inches

Height

111 mm 4.4 inches

111 mm 4.4 inches

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.21x SDI

4x DisplayPort 1.2

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

1,599 USD

—

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

FirePro Terascale

Quadro Kepler

Successor

Radeon Pro Polaris

Quadro Pascal

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