AMD FirePro W8000 vs AMD Radeon HD 6950

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM FirePro W8000 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6950 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W8000 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6950 's Advantages

Lower TDP (200W vs 225W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W8000 +43%

3.226 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950

2.253 TFLOPS

FirePro W8000

VS

Radeon HD 6950

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Dec 2010

FirePro

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

28

Compute Units

22

1792

Shading Units

1408

112

TMUs

88

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

25.60 GPixel/s

100.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

70.40 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.226 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.253 TFLOPS

806.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

563.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Cayman

Tahiti PRO GL

GPU Variant

Cayman PRO (215-0807019)

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

Board Design

225W

TDP

200W

550 W

Suggested PSU

550 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 Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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