AMD FirePro W8000 vs ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2

VS

AMD FirePro W8000

ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM FirePro W8000 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W8000 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

992 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (225W vs 286W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W8000 +168%

3.226 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4870 X2

1.2 TFLOPS

FirePro W8000

VS

Radeon HD 4870 X2

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Aug 2008

FirePro

Generation

Radeon R700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

10

-

1792

Shading Units

800

112

TMUs

40

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.00 GPixel/s

100.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

30.00 GTexel/s

-

3.226 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1200 GFLOPS

806.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

240.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

225W

TDP

286W

550 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

4x DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

R700

Tahiti PRO GL

GPU Variant

R700 XT (215-0669045)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.956 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

256 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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