ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2 vs AMD FirePro W8000

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4850 X2 and 4GB VRAM FirePro W8000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W8000 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 7 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 63.68GB/s)

992 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (225W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 4850 X2

1 TFLOPS

FirePro W8000 +222%

3.226 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4850 X2

VS

FirePro W8000

Graphics Card

Nov 2008

Release Date

Jun 2012

Radeon R700

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

995 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

63.68GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

10

Compute Units

28

800

Shading Units

1792

40

TMUs

112

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

10.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

25.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

100.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1000 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.226 TFLOPS

200.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

806.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

R700

GPU Name

Tahiti

R700 PRO (215-0669065)

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO GL

TeraScale

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.956 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

256 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

225W

600 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

4x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

4.1

Shader Model

5.1

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