AMD FirePro W8100 vs AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM FirePro W8100 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W8100 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

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

1600 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (220W vs 254W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W8100 +174%

4.219 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850 X2

1.536 TFLOPS

FirePro W8100

VS

Radeon HD 6850 X2

Graphics Card

Jun 2014

Release Date

Sep 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

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

40

Compute Units

12

2560

Shading Units

960

160

TMUs

48

64

ROPs

32

-

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

25.60 GPixel/s

131.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.40 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

4.219 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.536 TFLOPS

2.109 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

Barts

Hawaii GL40

GPU Variant

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

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

254W

550 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

4x DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

Outputs

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-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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