Radeon Pro Duo Polaris vs FirePro W8100
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro Duo Polaris and 8GB VRAM FirePro W8100 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon Pro Duo Polaris 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 10 months late
More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)
FirePro W8100 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)
256 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (220W vs 250W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon Pro Duo Polaris
+35%
5728
FirePro W8100
4219
Graphics Card
Apr 2017
Release Date
Jun 2014
Radeon Pro GCN
Generation
FirePro
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
512bit
224.0GB/s
Bandwidth
320.0GB/s
Render Config
36
Compute Units
40
2304
Shading Units
2560
144
TMUs
160
32
ROPs
64
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
Theoretical Performance
39.78 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
52.74 GPixel/s
179.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
131.8 GTexel/s
5.728 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
5.728 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.219 TFLOPS
358.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
2.109 TFLOPS
Board Design
250W
TDP
220W
600 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.2
1x SDI
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Ellesmere
GPU Name
Hawaii
Ellesmere Gemini GL
GPU Variant
Hawaii GL40
GCN 4.0
Architecture
GCN 2.0
GlobalFoundries
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
28 nm
5.7 billion
Transistors
6.2 billion
232 mm²
Die Size
438 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
OpenCL
2.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.2
6.7
Shader Model
6.3
