AMD FirePro W7100 vs AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM FirePro W7100 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 255 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W7100 's Advantages

Released 8 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 73.60GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM 's Advantages

Boost Clock930MHz

Lower TDP (65W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W7100 +246%

3.297 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 255 OEM

0.952 TFLOPS

FirePro W7100

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Radeon R9 255 OEM

Graphics Card

Aug 2014

Release Date

Dec 2013

FirePro

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

900 MHz

-

Boost Clock

930 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1150 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

160.0GB/s

Bandwidth

73.60GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

28

Compute Units

8

1792

Shading Units

512

112

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

29.44 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

14.88 GPixel/s

103.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

29.76 GTexel/s

3.297 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.297 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

952.3 GFLOPS

206.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

59.52 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tonga

GPU Name

Cape Verde

Tonga PRO GL

GPU Variant

Cape Verde PRX

GCN 3.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

366 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

65W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

4x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.3

Shader Model

5.1

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