NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile vs AMD FirePro W8000

GPU · Specs Compare

Products
GPU NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile NVIDIA · 2015-09
GPU AMD FirePro W8000 AMD · 2012-06
Graphics Card
Release Date
Sep 2015
Jun 2012
Generation
GeForce 900M
FirePro
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1064 MHz
—
Boost Clock
1140 MHz
—
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
1375 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
224.4GB/s
176.0GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
2048
1792
TMUs
128
112
ROPs
64
32
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
2 MB
512 KB
Compute Units
—
28
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
72.96 GPixel/s
28.80 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
145.9 GTexel/s
100.8 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
4.669 TFLOPS
3.226 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
145.9 GFLOPS
806.4 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GM204
Tahiti
GPU Variant
N16E-GXX-A1
Tahiti PRO GL
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
GCN 1.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
5.2 billion
4.313 billion
Die Size
398 mm²
352 mm²
Board Design
TDP
Unknown
225W
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
4x DisplayPort 1.21x SDI
Power Connectors
None
2x 6-pin
Suggested PSU
—
550 W
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
1.2
CUDA
5.2
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Shader Model
6.7 (6.4)
5.1
▲ Specs Compare Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.