AMD Radeon R9 285 vs AMD FirePro W8100

VS

AMD Radeon R9 285

AMD FirePro W8100

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 285 and 8GB VRAM FirePro W8100 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 285 's Advantages

Lower TDP (190W vs 220W)

AMD FirePro W8100 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 285

3.29 TFLOPS

FirePro W8100 +28%

4.219 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 285

VS

FirePro W8100

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Jun 2014

Volcanic Islands

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

40

-

1792

Shading Units

2560

112

TMUs

160

32

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.38 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

52.74 GPixel/s

102.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

131.8 GTexel/s

3.290 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.290 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.219 TFLOPS

205.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

2.109 TFLOPS

Board Design

190W

TDP

220W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Tonga

GPU Name

Hawaii

Tonga PRO (215-0851128)

GPU Variant

Hawaii GL40

GCN 3.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

366 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.0

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.5

Shader Model

6.3

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