AMD Radeon R9 285X vs AMD FirePro W5100

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 285X 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 285X 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro W5100 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (50W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 285X +187%

4.104 TFLOPS

FirePro W5100

1.428 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 285X

VS

FirePro W5100

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Mar 2014

Volcanic Islands

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

32

Compute Units

12

2048

Shading Units

768

128

TMUs

48

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

32.06 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

14.88 GPixel/s

128.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

44.64 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

4.104 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1428 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

89.28 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tonga

GPU Name

Bonaire

Tonga XT (215-0851313)

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

Board Design

200W

TDP

50W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.3

Shader Model

6.3

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