AMD FirePro W8100 vs AMD Radeon HD 8490 OEM

VS

AMD FirePro W8100

AMD Radeon HD 8490 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM FirePro W8100 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8490 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W8100 's Advantages

Released 11 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

2400 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 8490 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (35W vs 220W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W8100 +1406%

4.219 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8490 OEM

0.28 TFLOPS

FirePro W8100

VS

Radeon HD 8490 OEM

Graphics Card

Jun 2014

Release Date

Jul 2013

FirePro

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

512bit

Memory Bus

64bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

40

Compute Units

2

-

2560

Shading Units

160

TMUs

8

64

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

52.74 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.500 GPixel/s

131.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

7.000 GTexel/s

-

4.219 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

280.0 GFLOPS

2.109 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

220W

TDP

35W

550 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

4x DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

Outputs

1x DVI 1x DisplayPort 1.1

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

Caicos

Hawaii GL40

GPU Variant

Caicos XTX

GCN 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

0.37 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

67 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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