AMD FirePro W8100 vs AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

VS

AMD FirePro W8100

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM FirePro W8100 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 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 5 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (85W vs 220W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W8100 +243%

4.219 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

1.229 TFLOPS

FirePro W8100

VS

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

Graphics Card

Jun 2014

Release Date

Jan 2012

FirePro

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

384bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

40

Compute Units

12

-

2560

Shading Units

768

160

TMUs

48

64

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

52.74 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

25.60 GPixel/s

131.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.40 GTexel/s

-

4.219 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1229 GFLOPS

2.109 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

307.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

220W

TDP

85W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

4x DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

Outputs

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

Tahiti

Hawaii GL40

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.3

Shader Model

5.1

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