AMD FirePro W8000 vs ATI Radeon X1950 GT

VS

AMD FirePro W8000 ATI Radeon X1950 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM FirePro W8000 and 256MB VRAM Radeon X1950 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W8000 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 5 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon X1950 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (57W vs 225W)

Score

FirePro W8000

VS

Radeon X1950 GT

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Jan 2007

FirePro

Generation

Radeon R500 PCIe

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

38.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

28

Compute Units

-

1792

Shading Units

-

112

TMUs

12

32

ROPs

12

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.000 GPixel/s

100.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.000 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.226 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

806.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

RV570

Tahiti PRO GL

GPU Variant

RV570 XL

GCN 1.0

Architecture

R500

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.33 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

230 mm²

Board Design

225W

TDP

57W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

4x DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.1 (full) 3.0 (partial)

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

3.0

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