AMD FirePro W2100 vs AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

VS

AMD FirePro W2100

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro W2100 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W2100 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 7 months late

Lower TDP (26W vs 200W)

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 36% (925MHz vs 680MHz)

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

1472 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W2100

0.435 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950 OEM +662%

3.315 TFLOPS

FirePro W2100

VS

Radeon HD 8950 OEM

Graphics Card

Aug 2014

Release Date

Jan 2013

FirePro

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

630 MHz

Base Clock

850 MHz

680 MHz

Boost Clock

925 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

3GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

5

Compute Units

28

-

320

Shading Units

1792

20

TMUs

112

8

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

5.440 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

13.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

103.6 GTexel/s

-

435.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.315 TFLOPS

27.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

828.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

26W

TDP

200W

200 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Oland

GPU Name

Tahiti

-

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.95 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

77 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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