AMD FirePro W8100 vs AMD Radeon Sky 500

VS

AMD FirePro W8100

AMD Radeon Sky 500

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM FirePro W8100 and 4GB VRAM Radeon Sky 500 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 3 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon Sky 500 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 220W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W8100 +73%

4.219 TFLOPS

Radeon Sky 500

2.432 TFLOPS

FirePro W8100

VS

Radeon Sky 500

Graphics Card

Jun 2014

Release Date

Mar 2013

FirePro

Generation

Radeon Sky

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/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

30.40 GPixel/s

131.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

76.00 GTexel/s

-

4.219 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.432 TFLOPS

2.109 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

152.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

220W

TDP

150W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

4x DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

Outputs

1x DisplayPort 1.2

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

Pitcairn

Hawaii GL40

GPU Variant

Pitcairn XT GL (215-0828073)

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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