AMD FirePro W8100 vs AMD Radeon R9 295X2

VS

AMD FirePro W8100

AMD Radeon R9 295X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM FirePro W8100 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 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 4GB)

Lower TDP (220W vs 500W)

AMD Radeon R9 295X2 's Advantages

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W8100

4.219 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 295X2 +35%

5.733 TFLOPS

FirePro W8100

VS

Radeon R9 295X2

Graphics Card

Jun 2014

Release Date

Apr 2014

FirePro

Generation

Volcanic 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

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

512bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

40

Compute Units

44

-

2560

Shading Units

2816

160

TMUs

176

64

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

52.74 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

65.15 GPixel/s

131.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

179.2 GTexel/s

-

4.219 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.733 TFLOPS

2.109 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

716.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

220W

TDP

500W

550 W

Suggested PSU

900 W

4x DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

Outputs

1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

Vesuvius

Hawaii GL40

GPU Variant

Vesuvius XT (215-0852022)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.3

Shader Model

6.3

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