ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 vs AMD FirePro W8100

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 X2 and 8GB VRAM FirePro W8100 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W8100 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

1760 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (220W vs 286W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 4870 X2

1.2 TFLOPS

FirePro W8100 +251%

4.219 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4870 X2

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FirePro W8100

Graphics Card

Aug 2008

Release Date

Jun 2014

Radeon R700

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

10

Compute Units

40

800

Shading Units

2560

40

TMUs

160

16

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

12.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

52.74 GPixel/s

30.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

131.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1200 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.219 TFLOPS

240.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

2.109 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

R700

GPU Name

Hawaii

R700 XT (215-0669045)

GPU Variant

Hawaii GL40

TeraScale

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.956 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

256 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Board Design

286W

TDP

220W

600 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 Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

4.1

Shader Model

6.3

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