AMD FirePro W8100 vs AMD Radeon HD 6790

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM FirePro W8100 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6790 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W8100 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

1760 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6790 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 220W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W8100 +213%

4.219 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6790

1.344 TFLOPS

FirePro W8100

VS

Radeon HD 6790

Graphics Card

Jun 2014

Release Date

Apr 2011

FirePro

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1050 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

40

Compute Units

10

2560

Shading Units

800

160

TMUs

40

64

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

52.74 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

13.44 GPixel/s

131.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

4.219 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1344 GFLOPS

2.109 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

Barts

Hawaii GL40

GPU Variant

Barts LE (215-0798002)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

255 mm²

Board Design

220W

TDP

150W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

4x DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

Outputs

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.0

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.3

Shader Model

5.0

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