AMD FirePro W8100 vs AMD Radeon R5 230

VS

AMD FirePro W8100

AMD Radeon R5 230

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM FirePro W8100 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R5 230 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W8100 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 10.67GB/s)

2400 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R5 230 's Advantages

Lower TDP (19W vs 220W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W8100 +2009%

4.219 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 230

0.2 TFLOPS

FirePro W8100

VS

Radeon R5 230

Graphics Card

Jun 2014

Release Date

Apr 2014

FirePro

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

667 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

512bit

Memory Bus

64bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

10.67GB/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

2.500 GPixel/s

131.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.000 GTexel/s

-

4.219 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

200.0 GFLOPS

2.109 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

220W

TDP

19W

550 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

4x DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

Caicos

Hawaii GL40

GPU Variant

Caicos PRO

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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