AMD FirePro W8000 vs AMD Radeon R9 285X

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM FirePro W8000 and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 285X 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 R9 285X 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (200W vs 225W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W8000

3.226 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 285X +27%

4.104 TFLOPS

FirePro W8000

VS

Radeon R9 285X

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Unknown

FirePro

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

28

Compute Units

32

1792

Shading Units

2048

112

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.06 GPixel/s

100.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.3 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.226 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.104 TFLOPS

806.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Tonga

Tahiti PRO GL

GPU Variant

Tonga XT (215-0851313)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

5 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

366 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 1x DisplayPort 1.2

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.3

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