AMD FirePro W8000 vs AMD Radeon R9 390X

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM FirePro W8000 and 8GB VRAM Radeon R9 390X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W8000 's Advantages

Lower TDP (225W vs 275W)

AMD Radeon R9 390X 's Advantages

Released 3 years late

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W8000

3.226 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 390X +83%

5.914 TFLOPS

FirePro W8000

VS

Radeon R9 390X

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Jun 2015

FirePro

Generation

Pirate Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

384.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

28

Compute Units

44

1792

Shading Units

2816

112

TMUs

176

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

67.20 GPixel/s

100.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

184.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.226 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.914 TFLOPS

806.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

739.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Grenada

Tahiti PRO GL

GPU Variant

Grenada XT (215-0880004)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Board Design

225W

TDP

275W

550 W

Suggested PSU

600 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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