AMD FirePro W8000 vs NVIDIA A100 PCIe
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jun 2012
Jun 2020
Generation
FirePro
Tesla
Type
Desktop
AI GPU
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
1215 MHz
Base Clock
-
765 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1410 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
40GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
HBM2e
Memory Bus
256bit
5120bit
Bandwidth
176.0GB/s
1555GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
28
-
Shading Units
1792
6912
TMUs
112
432
ROPs
32
160
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
192 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
512 KB
40 MB
SM Count
-
108
Tensor Cores
-
432
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
28.80 GPixel/s
225.6 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
100.8 GTexel/s
609.1 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
3.226 TFLOPS
19.49 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
806.4 GFLOPS
9.746 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
77.97 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Tahiti
GA100
GPU Variant
Tahiti PRO GL
-
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Ampere
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
7 nm
Transistors
4.313 billion
54.2 billion
Die Size
352 mm²
826 mm²
Board Design
TDP
225W
250W
Suggested PSU
550 W
600 W
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.21x SDI
No outputs
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
8-pin EPS
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_1)
N/A
OpenGL
4.6
N/A
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
N/A
Shader Model
5.1
N/A
CUDA
-
8.0