AMD FirePro W8100 vs AMD Radeon R9 270X

VS

AMD FirePro W8100

AMD Radeon R9 270X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM FirePro W8100 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W8100 's Advantages

Released 8 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 179.2GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 270X 's Advantages

Boost Clock1050MHz

Lower TDP (180W vs 220W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W8100 +56%

4.219 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270X

2.688 TFLOPS

FirePro W8100

VS

Radeon R9 270X

Graphics Card

Jun 2014

Release Date

Oct 2013

FirePro

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1000 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1050 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

179.2GB/s

Render Config

40

Compute Units

20

-

2560

Shading Units

1280

160

TMUs

80

64

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

52.74 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.60 GPixel/s

131.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

84.00 GTexel/s

-

4.219 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.688 TFLOPS

2.109 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

168.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

220W

TDP

180W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

4x DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

Outputs

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

Curacao

Hawaii GL40

GPU Variant

Curacao XT (215-0848004)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

212 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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