
GeForce GTX 980 Ti and FirePro W8000 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs FirePro W8000
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
14228
FirePro W8000
4218
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
FirePro W8000
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
GM200
Tahiti
Market segment
Desktop
Workstation
Release date
June 2015
June 2012
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
PCIe 3.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)
600 Watt
-
Supplementary power connectors
6-pin + 8-pin
2x 6-pin
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1075 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1000 MHz
900 MHz
CUDA cores
2816
-
Floating-point performance
6,060 gflops
3,226 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
8,000 million
4,313 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2816
1792
Power consumption (TDP)
250 Watt
225 Watt
Texture fill rate
176 billion/sec
100.8
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
6 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
7.0 GB/s
5500 MHz
Memory bandwidth
336.5 GB/s
176 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
4x DisplayPort, 1x SDI
Multi monitor support
4 displays
-
DisplayPort count
-
4
Dual-link DVI support
-
1
HDMI
+
-
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
G-SYNC support
+
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (11_1)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.5
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
5.1
Vulkan
1.1.126
1.2.131
GameStream
+
-
GameWorks
+
-
GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-
StereoOutput3D
-
1