AMD FirePro W8000 vs NVIDIA RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jun 2012
Aug 2025
Generation
FirePro
Blackwell PRO W
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 5.0 x8
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
1125 MHz
Base Clock
—
982 MHz
Boost Clock
—
1957 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
16GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR7
Memory Bus
256bit
128bit
Bandwidth
176.0GB/s
288.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
28
—
Shading Units
1792
4352
TMUs
112
136
ROPs
32
64
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
512 KB
32 MB
SM Count
—
34
Tensor Cores
—
136
RT Cores
—
34
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
28.80 GPixel/s
125.2 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
100.8 GTexel/s
266.2 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
3.226 TFLOPS
17.03 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
806.4 GFLOPS
266.2 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
—
17.03 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Tahiti
GB206
GPU Variant
Tahiti PRO GL
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Architecture
GCN 1.0
Blackwell 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
5 nm
Transistors
4.313 billion
21.9 billion
Die Size
352 mm²
181 mm²
Board Design
TDP
225W
70W
Suggested PSU
550 W
250 W
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.21x SDI
4x mini-DisplayPort 2.1b
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
None
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.4
Shader Model
5.1
6.8
CUDA
—
12.0
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.