
FirePro W8000 and Quadro 5000 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score FirePro W8000 vs Quadro 5000
FirePro W8000
4218
Quadro 5000
1991
FirePro W8000
Quadro 5000
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
Tahiti
GF100
Market segment
Workstation
Workstation
Release date
June 2012
February 2011
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
1x 6-pin
Core clock speed
900 MHz
513 MHz
Floating-point performance
3,226 gflops
722.3 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
4,313 million
3,100 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1792
352
Power consumption (TDP)
225 Watt
152 Watt
Texture fill rate
100.8
22.57
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
2.5 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
320 Bit
Memory clock speed
5500 MHz
3000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
176 GB/s
120.0 GB/s
Display Connectors
4x DisplayPort, 1x SDI
1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort
DisplayPort count
4
-
Dual-link DVI support
1
-
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (11_0)
CUDA
-
2.0
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A
StereoOutput3D
1
-