Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 vs FirePro W8100
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 and 8GB VRAM FirePro W8100 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
FirePro W8100 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 3 months late
More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)
960 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (220W vs 228W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
2720
FirePro W8100
+55%
4219
Graphics Card
Mar 2010
Release Date
Jun 2014
Evergreen
Generation
FirePro
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1200 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
512bit
153.6GB/s
Bandwidth
320.0GB/s
Render Config
20
Compute Units
40
1600
Shading Units
2560
80
TMUs
160
32
ROPs
64
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
512 KB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
Theoretical Performance
27.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
52.74 GPixel/s
68.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
131.8 GTexel/s
2.720 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.219 TFLOPS
544.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
2.109 TFLOPS
Board Design
228W
TDP
220W
550 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.2
1x SDI
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Cypress
GPU Name
Hawaii
Cypress XT
(215-0735033)
GPU Variant
Hawaii GL40
TeraScale 2
Architecture
GCN 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
28 nm
2.154 billion
Transistors
6.2 billion
334 mm²
Die Size
438 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.4
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
2.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
5.0
Shader Model
6.3
