AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM vs AMD FirePro V5900

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

AMD FirePro V5900

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950 OEM and 2GB VRAM FirePro V5900 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock925MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro V5900 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8950 OEM +439%

3.315 TFLOPS

FirePro V5900

0.614 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950 OEM

VS

FirePro V5900

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

May 2011

Sea Islands

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

-

925 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

8

-

1792

Shading Units

512

112

TMUs

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.20 GPixel/s

103.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

19.20 GTexel/s

-

3.315 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

614.4 GFLOPS

828.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

153.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

75W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Cayman

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

GPU Variant

Cayman LE WS

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 3

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

2.64 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

389 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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