FirePro W8000 and Switch GPU 16nm - video card comparison

FirePro W8000

Switch GPU 16nm

Architecture

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)

GPU code name

Tahiti

GM20B

Market segment

Workstation

Desktop

Release date

June 2012

August 2019

Bus support

PCIe 3.0

-

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

IGP

Supplementary power connectors

2x 6-pin

None

Boost clock speed

-

768 MHz

Core clock speed

900 MHz

-

Floating-point performance

3,226 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

16 nm

Number of transistors

4,313 million

2,000 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1792

256

Power consumption (TDP)

225 Watt

15 Watt

Texture fill rate

100.8

12.29

Memory type

GDDR5

DDR4

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

4 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

5500 MHz

3.2 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

176 GB/s

25.6 GB/s

Display Connectors

4x DisplayPort, 1x SDI

No outputs

DisplayPort count

4

-

Dual-link DVI support

1

-

DirectX

12 (11_1)

12 (12_1)

CUDA

-

5.3

OpenCL

1.2

1.2

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

6.4

Vulkan

1.2.131

1.1

StereoOutput3D

1

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