AMD Radeon R9 285 vs AMD FirePro W5100

VS

AMD Radeon R9 285

AMD FirePro W5100

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 285 and 4GB VRAM FirePro W5100 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 285 's Advantages

Released 6 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro W5100 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Lower TDP (50W vs 190W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 285 +130%

3.29 TFLOPS

FirePro W5100

1.428 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 285

VS

FirePro W5100

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Mar 2014

Volcanic Islands

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

12

-

1792

Shading Units

768

112

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.38 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

14.88 GPixel/s

102.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

44.64 GTexel/s

3.290 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.290 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1428 GFLOPS

205.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

89.28 GFLOPS

Board Design

190W

TDP

50W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.2

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Tonga

GPU Name

Bonaire

Tonga PRO (215-0851128)

GPU Variant

Bonaire PRO GL

GCN 3.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

366 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.0

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.5

Shader Model

6.3

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