AMD FirePro W8100 vs AMD Radeon HD 6950

VS

AMD FirePro W8100

AMD Radeon HD 6950

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM FirePro W8100 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6950 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 6 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)

1152 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6950 's Advantages

Lower TDP (200W vs 220W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W8100 +87%

4.219 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950

2.253 TFLOPS

FirePro W8100

VS

Radeon HD 6950

Graphics Card

Jun 2014

Release Date

Dec 2010

FirePro

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

40

Compute Units

22

-

2560

Shading Units

1408

160

TMUs

88

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

25.60 GPixel/s

131.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

70.40 GTexel/s

-

4.219 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.253 TFLOPS

2.109 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

563.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

220W

TDP

200W

550 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

4x DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

Cayman

Hawaii GL40

GPU Variant

Cayman PRO (215-0807019)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 3

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

2.64 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

389 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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