AMD FirePro W8000 vs AMD Radeon RX 560DX

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM FirePro W8000 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560DX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W8000 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 560DX 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1175MHz

Lower TDP (65W vs 225W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W8000 +53%

3.226 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560DX

2.106 TFLOPS

FirePro W8000

VS

Radeon RX 560DX

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Apr 2018

FirePro

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1090 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1175 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

28

Compute Units

14

1792

Shading Units

896

112

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

16

-

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

18.80 GPixel/s

100.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

65.80 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

2.106 TFLOPS

3.226 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.106 TFLOPS

806.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

131.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Polaris 21

Tahiti PRO GL

GPU Variant

Polaris 21 XL

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

3 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

225W

TDP

65W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

4x DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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