AMD FirePro W4000 vs AMD Radeon R9 290X2

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro W4000 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W4000 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 580W)

AMD Radeon R9 290X2 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (345.6GB/s vs 102.4GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W4000

1.267 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X2 +344%

5.632 TFLOPS

FirePro W4000

VS

Radeon R9 290X2

Graphics Card

Aug 2012

Release Date

Jun 2014

FirePro

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1350 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

102.4GB/s

Bandwidth

345.6GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

12

Compute Units

44

768

Shading Units

2816

48

TMUs

176

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

26.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

39.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1267 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.632 TFLOPS

79.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

704.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

Hawaii

Pitcairn LE GL

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

580W

250 W

Suggested PSU

950 W

1x DVI 2x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

4x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.3

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