AMD FirePro W5100 vs AMD Radeon R9 290

VS

AMD FirePro W5100

AMD Radeon R9 290

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM FirePro W5100 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W5100 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 275W)

AMD Radeon R9 290 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W5100

1.428 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290 +239%

4.849 TFLOPS

FirePro W5100

VS

Radeon R9 290

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Nov 2013

FirePro

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

512bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

40

-

768

Shading Units

2560

48

TMUs

160

16

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

14.88 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

60.61 GPixel/s

44.64 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

151.5 GTexel/s

-

1428 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.849 TFLOPS

89.28 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

606.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

275W

250 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

4x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

Hawaii

Bonaire PRO GL

GPU Variant

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.3

Shader Model

6.3

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