AMD FirePro W9000 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M

Comparative analysis of AMD FirePro W9000 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s).

AMD FirePro W9000

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD FirePro W9000

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 0 month(s) later
Around 15% higher core clock speed: 975 MHz vs 850 MHz
6.7x more texture fill rate: 124.8 GTexel / s vs 18.7 billion / sec
5.8x more pipelines: 2048 vs 352
6.7x better floating-point performance: 3,994 gflops vs 598.4 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
3x more maximum memory size: 6 GB vs 2 GB
4.6x more memory clock speed: 5500 MHz vs 1200 MHz
3.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 6138 vs 1617
Around 57% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 720 vs 458

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	14 June 2012 vs 25 May 2010
Core clock speed	975 MHz vs 850 MHz
Texture fill rate	124.8 GTexel / s vs 18.7 billion / sec
Pipelines	2048 vs 352
Floating-point performance	3,994 gflops vs 598.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size	6 GB vs 2 GB
Memory clock speed	5500 MHz vs 1200 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	6138 vs 1617
PassMark - G2D Mark	720 vs 458

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M

3.5x lower typical power consumption: 100 Watt vs 350 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	100 Watt vs 350 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD FirePro W9000
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

6138

1617

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

720

458

Name	AMD FirePro W9000	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M
PassMark - G3D Mark	6138	1617
PassMark - G2D Mark	720	458
Geekbench - OpenCL	31775
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	84.462
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	1734.394
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	8.988
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	86.984
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	460.234

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD FirePro W9000	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	Fermi
Code name	Tahiti	GF100
Launch date	14 June 2012	25 May 2010
Launch price (MSRP)	$3,999
Place in performance rating	336	292
Type	Workstation	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	975 MHz	850 MHz
Floating-point performance	3,994 gflops	598.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	2048	352
Texture fill rate	124.8 GTexel / s	18.7 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	350 Watt	100 Watt
Transistor count	4,313 million	3,100 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	6x mini-DisplayPort, 1x SDI	No outputs
Dual-link DVI support
StereoOutput3D
Maximum VGA resolution		2048x1536
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCIe 3.0	PCI-E 2.0
Form factor	Full Height / Full Length
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	MXM-B (3.0)
Length	279 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin	None
Laptop size		large
SLI options		2-way
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_1)	12 API
OpenGL	4.5	4.5
OpenCL		1.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	6 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	264 GB / s	76.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	384 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	5500 MHz	1200 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Shared memory		0
Technologies
3D Vision
CUDA
SLI