AMD FirePro W8100 vs ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition

VS

AMD FirePro W8100

ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM FirePro W8100 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W8100 's Advantages

Released 6 years late

More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 72.06GB/s)

2240 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (106W vs 220W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W8100 +748%

4.219 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition

0.497 TFLOPS

FirePro W8100

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Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jun 2014

Release Date

Jun 2008

FirePro

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1126 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR4

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

72.06GB/s

Render Config

40

Compute Units

4

-

2560

Shading Units

320

160

TMUs

16

64

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

52.74 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.43 GPixel/s

131.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.43 GTexel/s

-

4.219 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

497.3 GFLOPS

2.109 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

99.46 GFLOPS

Board Design

220W

TDP

106W

550 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

4x DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

RV670

Hawaii GL40

GPU Variant

RV670 XT (215-0708005)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

2.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.3

Shader Model

4.1

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