ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT vs AMD FirePro W8000

VS

ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT

AMD FirePro W8000

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 2900 XT and 4GB VRAM FirePro W8000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (215W vs 225W)

AMD FirePro W8000 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 1 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 106.0GB/s)

1472 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 2900 XT

0.476 TFLOPS

FirePro W8000 +577%

3.226 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2900 XT

VS

FirePro W8000

Graphics Card

May 2007

Release Date

Jun 2012

Radeon R600

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

828 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

106.0GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

28

-

320

Shading Units

1792

16

TMUs

112

16

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

11.89 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

11.89 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

100.8 GTexel/s

-

475.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.226 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

806.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

215W

TDP

225W

550 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

R600

GPU Name

Tahiti

R600 XT (215RGMDKA13FG)

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO GL

TeraScale

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.72 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

420 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

10.0 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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