AMD FirePro W8000 vs AMD Radeon Sky 900

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM FirePro W8000 and 3GB VRAM Radeon Sky 900 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)

Lower TDP (225W vs 300W)

AMD Radeon Sky 900 's Advantages

Released 9 months late

Boost Clock950MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W8000

3.226 TFLOPS

Radeon Sky 900 +5%

3.405 TFLOPS

FirePro W8000

VS

Radeon Sky 900

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Mar 2013

FirePro

Generation

Radeon Sky

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

825 MHz

-

Boost Clock

950 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

28

Compute Units

28

1792

Shading Units

1792

112

TMUs

112

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

30.40 GPixel/s

100.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

106.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.226 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.405 TFLOPS

806.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

851.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Tahiti

Tahiti PRO GL

GPU Variant

Orthrus

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

225W

TDP

300W

550 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

4x DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

Outputs

1x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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