AMD FirePro W8000 vs AMD Radeon RX 580X

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM FirePro W8000 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 580X 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1340MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (185W vs 225W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W8000

3.226 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580X +91%

6.175 TFLOPS

FirePro W8000

VS

Radeon RX 580X

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Apr 2018

FirePro

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1257 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1340 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

28

Compute Units

36

1792

Shading Units

2304

112

TMUs

144

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

42.88 GPixel/s

100.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

193.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

6.175 TFLOPS

3.226 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.175 TFLOPS

806.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

385.9 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Polaris 20

Tahiti PRO GL

GPU Variant

Polaris 20 XTX (215-0910038)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Board Design

225W

TDP

185W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

4x DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

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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