AMD FirePro W8100 vs ATI Radeon X1950 GT

VS

AMD FirePro W8100

ATI Radeon X1950 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM FirePro W8100 and 256MB VRAM Radeon X1950 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W8100 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)

2560 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon X1950 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (57W vs 220W)

Score

FirePro W8100

VS

Radeon X1950 GT

Graphics Card

Jun 2014

Release Date

Jan 2007

FirePro

Generation

Radeon R500 PCIe

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

38.40GB/s

Render Config

40

Compute Units

-

2560

Shading Units

-

160

TMUs

12

64

ROPs

12

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

52.74 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.000 GPixel/s

131.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.000 GTexel/s

-

4.219 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

2.109 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

220W

TDP

57W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

4x DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

RV570

Hawaii GL40

GPU Variant

RV570 XL

GCN 2.0

Architecture

R500

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

0.33 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

230 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.1 (full) 3.0 (partial)

2.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.3

Shader Model

3.0

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