AMD FirePro W8000 vs AMD Radeon R5 230

VS

AMD FirePro W8000

AMD Radeon R5 230

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM FirePro W8000 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R5 230 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 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 10.67GB/s)

1632 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R5 230 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 10 months late

Lower TDP (19W vs 225W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W8000 +1513%

3.226 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 230

0.2 TFLOPS

FirePro W8000

VS

Radeon R5 230

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Apr 2014

FirePro

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

667 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

10.67GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

2

-

1792

Shading Units

160

112

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.500 GPixel/s

100.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.000 GTexel/s

-

3.226 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

200.0 GFLOPS

806.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

225W

TDP

19W

550 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

4x DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Caicos

Tahiti PRO GL

GPU Variant

Caicos PRO

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.37 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

67 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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