AMD Radeon HD 6930 vs AMD FirePro W8000

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6930

AMD FirePro W8000

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6930 and 4GB VRAM FirePro W8000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6930 's Advantages

Lower TDP (186W vs 225W)

AMD FirePro W8000 's Advantages

Released 6 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6930

1.92 TFLOPS

FirePro W8000 +68%

3.226 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6930

VS

FirePro W8000

Graphics Card

Dec 2011

Release Date

Jun 2012

Northern Islands

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

28

-

1280

Shading Units

1792

80

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

32

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

24.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

60.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

100.8 GTexel/s

-

1.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.226 TFLOPS

480.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

806.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

186W

TDP

225W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

Tahiti

Cayman CE (215-0807105)

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO GL

TeraScale 3

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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