AMD FirePro W8000 vs AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

VS

AMD FirePro W8000

AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM FirePro W8000 and 16GB VRAM Radeon Vega Frontier Edition 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 300W)

AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition 's Advantages

Released 5 years late

Boost Clock1600MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)

2304 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W8000

3.226 TFLOPS

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition +306%

13.11 TFLOPS

FirePro W8000

VS

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Jun 2017

FirePro

Generation

Radeon Pro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1382 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1600 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

945 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

256bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

483.8GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

64

-

1792

Shading Units

4096

112

TMUs

256

32

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

102.4 GPixel/s

100.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

409.6 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

26.21 TFLOPS

3.226 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

13.11 TFLOPS

806.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

819.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

225W

TDP

300W

550 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

4x DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Vega 10

Tahiti PRO GL

GPU Variant

Vega 10 XTX AIR

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 5.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

12.5 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

495 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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