FirePro W8000 and FirePro V9800 - video card comparison
FirePro W8000
FirePro V9800
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
Tahiti
Cypress
Market segment
Workstation
Workstation
Release date
June 2012
September 2010
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
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Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Core clock speed
900 MHz
850 MHz
Floating-point performance
3,226 gflops
2,720.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
4,313 million
2,154 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1792
1600
Power consumption (TDP)
225 Watt
250 Watt
Texture fill rate
100.8
68.00
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
5500 MHz
4600 MHz
Memory bandwidth
176 GB/s
147.2 GB/s
Display Connectors
4x DisplayPort, 1x SDI
6x mini-DisplayPort, 1x S-Video
DisplayPort count
4
-
Dual-link DVI support
1
-
DirectX
12 (11_1)
11.2 (11_0)
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
Shader Model
5.1
5.0
Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A
StereoOutput3D
1
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