AMD FirePro W7100 vs AMD Radeon HD 6850

VS

AMD FirePro W7100

AMD Radeon HD 6850

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM FirePro W7100 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W7100 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

832 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6850 's Advantages

Lower TDP (127W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W7100 +121%

3.297 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850

1.488 TFLOPS

FirePro W7100

VS

Radeon HD 6850

Graphics Card

Aug 2014

Release Date

Oct 2010

FirePro

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

160.0GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

12

-

1792

Shading Units

960

112

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.44 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

24.80 GPixel/s

103.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.20 GTexel/s

3.297 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.297 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1488 GFLOPS

206.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

150W

TDP

127W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

4x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Tonga

GPU Name

Barts

Tonga PRO GL

GPU Variant

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

GCN 3.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

366 mm²

Die Size

255 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.0

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.3

Shader Model

5.0

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