Comparison of AMD FirePro W7000 and GeForce GTX 590 (March, 2011)

Attribute	GeForce GTX 590 (March, 2011) ×	AMD FirePro W7000 ×
GPU
Release year (year)	2011	2012
GPU brand	Nvidia	AMD
GPU name	GF110	Pitcairn
Market	Desktop	-
Clock speed (MHz)	608	950
Is dual GPU	+	-
Model	GeForce GTX 590 (March, 2011)	AMD FirePro W7000
Memory
Memory (MB)	3,072	4,096
Memory bandwidth (GB/s)	328	153.6
Memory bus (bit)	768	256
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Memory clock speed (MHz)	854	1,200
Effective memory clock speed (MHz)	3,416	4,800
Noise and power
TDP (W)	365	150
Load power consumption (W)	572	-
Idle power consumption (W)	155	-
Load noise level (dB)	55.7	-
Idle noise level (dB)	47.1	-
Raw performance
Pixel rate (GPixel/s)	38.92	30.4
Render output processors	96	32
Texture mapping units	128	80
Shading units	1,024	1,280
Floating-point performance (GFLOPS)	2,488	2,432
Compute units	-	20
Texture rate (GTexel/s)	77.8	76
Benchmarks
Battlefield 3	57	-
Particle simulation (mInteraction/s)	-	356.13
T-Rex (Compubench 1.5) (frames/s)	-	4.87
Video composition (frames/s)	-	79.23
Crysis 2	101	-
Face detection (mPixels/s)	30.92	52.73
T-Rex (GFXBench 3.0)	3357.39	3360.02
Manhattan (GFXBench 3.0)	3606.19	3717.14
Bitcoin mining (mHash/s)	107.24	268.29
Sky Diver Factor	275.21	-
Fire Strike Factor	40.09	-
Ocean surface simulation (frames/s)	-	1147.54