AMD FirePro W4000 vs ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO

VS

AMD FirePro W4000

ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro W4000 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 2900 PRO to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W4000 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (102.4GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

448 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (75W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W4000 +229%

1.267 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2900 PRO

0.384 TFLOPS

FirePro W4000

VS

Radeon HD 2900 PRO

Graphics Card

Aug 2012

Release Date

Dec 2007

FirePro

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

102.4GB/s

Bandwidth

51.20GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

4

-

768

Shading Units

320

48

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

26.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.600 GPixel/s

39.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

9.600 GTexel/s

-

1267 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

384.0 GFLOPS

79.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

75W

TDP

200W

250 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x DVI 2x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

R600

Pitcairn LE GL

GPU Variant

R600 PRO (215RGMDKA13FG)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.72 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

420 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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