AMD Radeon HD 7850 vs AMD FirePro W8000

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7850 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 7850 's Advantages

Lower TDP (130W vs 225W)

AMD FirePro W8000 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

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

768 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7850

1.761 TFLOPS

FirePro W8000 +83%

3.226 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7850

VS

FirePro W8000

Graphics Card

Mar 2012

Release Date

Jun 2012

Southern Islands

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

16

Compute Units

28

1024

Shading Units

1792

64

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

27.52 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

55.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

100.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.761 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.226 TFLOPS

110.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

806.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

Tahiti

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO GL

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

130W

TDP

225W

300 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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