FirePro W8000 and GeForce GTX 480 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score FirePro W8000 vs GeForce GTX 480
FirePro W8000
4218
GeForce GTX 480
4229
FirePro W8000
GeForce GTX 480
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
Tahiti
GF100
Market segment
Workstation
Desktop
Release date
June 2012
December 2010
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
16x PCI-E 2.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
6-pin & 8-pin
SLI options
-
+
Core clock speed
900 MHz
700 MHz
CUDA cores
-
480
Floating-point performance
3,226 gflops
1,345.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
4,313 million
3,100 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1792
480
Power consumption (TDP)
225 Watt
295 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
-
105 °C
Texture fill rate
100.8
42 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
1536 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
384 Bit
Memory clock speed
5500 MHz
1848 MHz (3696 data rate)
Memory bandwidth
176 GB/s
177.4 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
4x DisplayPort, 1x SDI
Two Dual Link DVI, Mini HDMI
Multi monitor support
-
+
DisplayPort count
4
-
Dual-link DVI support
1
-
HDMI
-
+
HDCP
-
+
Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536
Audio input for HDMI
-
Internal
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (11_0)
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.6
4.2
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A
StereoOutput3D
1
-