AMD Radeon R9 270X vs AMD FirePro W7100

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270X and 8GB VRAM FirePro W7100 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 270X 's Advantages

Boost Clock1050MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)

AMD FirePro W7100 's Advantages

Released 10 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

512 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 180W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 270X

2.688 TFLOPS

FirePro W7100 +22%

3.297 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270X

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FirePro W7100

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Aug 2014

Volcanic Islands

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

-

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

20

Compute Units

28

1280

Shading Units

1792

80

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

33.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.44 GPixel/s

84.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

103.0 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

3.297 TFLOPS

2.688 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.297 TFLOPS

168.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

206.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Curacao

GPU Name

Tonga

Curacao XT (215-0848004)

GPU Variant

Tonga PRO GL

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

5 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

366 mm²

Board Design

180W

TDP

150W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.2

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.3

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