AMD FirePro W8000 vs NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Jun 2012
Mar 2025
Generation
FirePro
Server Blackwell
Type
Desktop
Professional
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 5.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Memory Clock
1375 MHz
1750 MHz
Base Clock
-
1590 MHz
Boost Clock
-
2617 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
4GB
96GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR7
Memory Bus
256bit
512bit
Bandwidth
176.0GB/s
1.79TB/s

Render Config

Compute Units
28
-
Shading Units
1792
24064
TMUs
112
752
ROPs
32
192
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
512 KB
128 MB
SM Count
-
188
Tensor Cores
-
752
RT Cores
-
188

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
28.80 GPixel/s
502.5 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
100.8 GTexel/s
1968.0 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
3.226 TFLOPS
126.0 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
806.4 GFLOPS
1.968 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
126.0 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
Tahiti
GB202
GPU Variant
Tahiti PRO GL
-
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Blackwell 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
5 nm
Transistors
4.313 billion
92.2 billion
Die Size
352 mm²
750 mm²

Board Design

TDP
225W
600W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1000 W
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.21x SDI
4x DisplayPort 2.1b
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
1x 16-pin

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
6.9
CUDA
-
12.0