NVIDIA GRID M60-8Q vs AMD FirePro W8000

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GRID M60-8Q and AMD FirePro W8000 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GRID M60-8Q

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 2 month(s) later
  • Around 3% higher core clock speed: 930 MHz vs 900 MHz
  • Around 50% higher texture fill rate: 151.0 GTexel / s vs 100.8 GTexel / s
  • Around 14% higher pipelines: 2048 vs 1792
  • Around 50% better floating-point performance: 4,833 gflops vs 3,226 gflops
  • Around 56% lower typical power consumption: 225 Watt vs 350 Watt
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 4 GB
  • Around 33% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 618 vs 464
  • Around 20% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 8909 vs 7400
  • Around 20% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 8909 vs 7400
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 30 August 2015 vs 14 June 2012
Core clock speed 930 MHz vs 900 MHz
Texture fill rate 151.0 GTexel / s vs 100.8 GTexel / s
Pipelines 2048 vs 1792
Floating-point performance 4,833 gflops vs 3,226 gflops
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 225 Watt vs 350 Watt
Maximum memory size 8 GB vs 4 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 618 vs 464
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 8909 vs 7400
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 8909 vs 7400
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3359 vs 3357
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3359 vs 3357

Reasons to consider the AMD FirePro W8000

  • Around 10% higher memory clock speed: 5500 MHz vs 5012 MHz
  • Around 5% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 4096 vs 3884
  • 3x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 82941 vs 27798
Specifications (specs)
Memory clock speed 5500 MHz vs 5012 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 4096 vs 3884
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3717 vs 3709
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3717 vs 3709
Geekbench - OpenCL 82941 vs 27798

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GRID M60-8Q
GPU 2: AMD FirePro W8000

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
3884
4096
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
618
464
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
8909
7400
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
8909
7400
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3709
3717
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3709
3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3359
3357
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3359
3357
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
27798
82941
Name NVIDIA GRID M60-8Q AMD FirePro W8000
PassMark - G3D Mark 3884 4096
PassMark - G2D Mark 618 464
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 8909 7400
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 8909 7400
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3709 3717
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3709 3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3359 3357
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3359 3357
Geekbench - OpenCL 27798 82941
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 64.628
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 387.109

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GRID M60-8Q AMD FirePro W8000

Essentials

Architecture Maxwell 2.0 GCN 1.0
Code name GM204 Tahiti
Launch date 30 August 2015 14 June 2012
Place in performance rating 350 409
Type Workstation Workstation
Launch price (MSRP) $1,599

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1180 MHz
Core clock speed 930 MHz 900 MHz
Floating-point performance 4,833 gflops 3,226 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 2048 1792
Texture fill rate 151.0 GTexel / s 100.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 225 Watt 350 Watt
Transistor count 5,200 million 4,313 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 4x DisplayPort, 1x SDI
DisplayPort count 4
Dual-link DVI support
StereoOutput3D

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Length 267 mm 279 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x 8-pin 2x 6-pin
Bus support PCIe 3.0
Form factor Full Height / Full Length

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_1) 12.0 (11_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.5

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 4 GB
Memory bandwidth 160.4 GB / s 176 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 5012 MHz 5500 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5