AMD FirePro W8000 vs AMD Radeon R9 370X

VS

AMD FirePro W8000

AMD Radeon R9 370X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM FirePro W8000 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 370X 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 2GB)

512 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 370X 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1030MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (180W vs 225W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W8000 +22%

3.226 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 370X

2.637 TFLOPS

FirePro W8000

VS

Radeon R9 370X

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Aug 2015

FirePro

Generation

Pirate Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

980 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1030 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

179.2GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

24

-

1792

Shading Units

1280

112

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.96 GPixel/s

100.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

82.40 GTexel/s

-

3.226 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.637 TFLOPS

806.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

164.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

225W

TDP

180W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

4x DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

Outputs

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Trinidad

Tahiti PRO GL

GPU Variant

Trinidad XT

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

212 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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