AMD FirePro W8100 vs AMD Radeon HD 6870

VS

AMD FirePro W8100

AMD Radeon HD 6870

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM FirePro W8100 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 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 8 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

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

1440 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6870 's Advantages

Lower TDP (151W vs 220W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W8100 +109%

4.219 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870

2.016 TFLOPS

FirePro W8100

VS

Radeon HD 6870

Graphics Card

Jun 2014

Release Date

Oct 2010

FirePro

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

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

40

Compute Units

14

-

2560

Shading Units

1120

160

TMUs

56

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

28.80 GPixel/s

131.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

50.40 GTexel/s

-

4.219 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.016 TFLOPS

2.109 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

220W

TDP

151W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

4x DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

Outputs

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

Barts

Hawaii GL40

GPU Variant

Barts XT (215-0798000)

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

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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