AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris vs AMD FirePro W8100

VS

AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris

AMD FirePro W8100

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro Duo Polaris and 8GB VRAM FirePro W8100 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)

AMD FirePro W8100 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (220W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro Duo Polaris +35%

5.728 TFLOPS

FirePro W8100

4.219 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro Duo Polaris

VS

FirePro W8100

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Jun 2014

Radeon Pro GCN

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

40

-

2304

Shading Units

2560

144

TMUs

160

32

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

39.78 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

52.74 GPixel/s

179.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

131.8 GTexel/s

5.728 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.728 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.219 TFLOPS

358.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

2.109 TFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

220W

600 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

Hawaii

Ellesmere Gemini GL

GPU Variant

Hawaii GL40

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.7

Shader Model

6.3

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