AMD FirePro W8100 vs AMD Radeon R9 390X

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM FirePro W8100 and 8GB VRAM Radeon R9 390X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W8100 's Advantages

Lower TDP (220W vs 275W)

AMD Radeon R9 390X 's Advantages

Released 1 years late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W8100

4.219 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 390X +40%

5.914 TFLOPS

FirePro W8100

VS

Radeon R9 390X

Graphics Card

Jun 2014

Release Date

Jun 2015

FirePro

Generation

Pirate Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

512bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

384.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

40

Compute Units

44

2560

Shading Units

2816

160

TMUs

176

64

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

52.74 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

67.20 GPixel/s

131.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

184.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

4.219 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.914 TFLOPS

2.109 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

739.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

Grenada

Hawaii GL40

GPU Variant

Grenada XT (215-0880004)

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

Board Design

220W

TDP

275W

550 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

4x DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

Outputs

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.3

Shader Model

6.3

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