AMD FirePro W8000 vs AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition

VS

AMD FirePro W8000

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM FirePro W8000 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W8000 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Released 9 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (200W vs 225W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W8000 +12%

3.226 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition

2.867 TFLOPS

FirePro W8000

VS

Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Mar 2013

FirePro

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

28

-

1792

Shading Units

1792

112

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

25.60 GPixel/s

100.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

89.60 GTexel/s

-

3.226 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.867 TFLOPS

806.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

716.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

225W

TDP

200W

550 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

4x DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

Outputs

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Tahiti

Tahiti PRO GL

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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