AMD FirePro W8000 vs AMD Radeon HD 6930

VS

AMD FirePro W8000

AMD Radeon HD 6930

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM FirePro W8000 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6930 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W8000 's Advantages

Released 6 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6930 's Advantages

Lower TDP (186W vs 225W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W8000 +68%

3.226 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6930

1.92 TFLOPS

FirePro W8000

VS

Radeon HD 6930

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Dec 2011

FirePro

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

20

-

1792

Shading Units

1280

112

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

24.00 GPixel/s

100.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

60.00 GTexel/s

-

3.226 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.920 TFLOPS

806.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

480.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

225W

TDP

186W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

4x DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

Outputs

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Cayman

Tahiti PRO GL

GPU Variant

Cayman CE (215-0807105)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 3

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

2.64 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

389 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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