AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM vs AMD Radeon Pro WX 2100

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AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM AMD Radeon Pro WX 2100

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950 OEM and 2GB VRAM Radeon Pro WX 2100 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM 's Advantages

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 48.00GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon Pro WX 2100 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 32% (1219MHz vs 925MHz)

Lower TDP (35W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8950 OEM +165%

3.315 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro WX 2100

1.248 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950 OEM

VS

Radeon Pro WX 2100

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Jun 2017

Sea Islands

Generation

Radeon Pro Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

925 MHz

Boost Clock

1219 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

64bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

48.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

28

Compute Units

8

1792

Shading Units

512

112

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.50 GPixel/s

103.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

39.01 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

1248 GFLOPS

3.315 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1248 GFLOPS

828.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

78.02 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Lexa

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

GPU Variant

Lexa PRO GL

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

103 mm²

Board Design

200W

TDP

35W

550 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DisplayPort 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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