AMD FirePro W8100 vs ATI Radeon HD 5950

VS

AMD FirePro W8100

ATI Radeon HD 5950

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM FirePro W8100 and 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5950 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W8100 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

1120 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (220W vs 302W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W8100 +102%

4.219 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5950

2.088 TFLOPS

FirePro W8100

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5950

Graphics Card

Jun 2014

Release Date

Unknown

FirePro

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

40

Compute Units

18

-

2560

Shading Units

1440

160

TMUs

72

64

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

52.74 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.20 GPixel/s

131.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

52.20 GTexel/s

-

4.219 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.088 TFLOPS

2.109 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

220W

TDP

302W

550 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

4x DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

Hemlock

Hawaii GL40

GPU Variant

Hemlock PRO

GCN 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.0

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.3

Shader Model

5.0

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