AMD FirePro W8100 vs AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

VS

AMD FirePro W8100

AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM FirePro W8100 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W8100 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 264.0GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (220W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W8100 +11%

4.219 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

3.789 TFLOPS

FirePro W8100

VS

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

Graphics Card

Jun 2014

Release Date

Jan 2013

FirePro

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

384bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

40

Compute Units

32

-

2560

Shading Units

2048

160

TMUs

128

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

29.60 GPixel/s

131.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

-

4.219 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

2.109 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

947.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

220W

TDP

250W

550 W

Suggested PSU

600 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 XT (215-0821060)

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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