AMD Radeon R9 290 vs AMD FirePro W5100

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290

AMD FirePro W5100

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 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 290 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro W5100 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290 +239%

4.849 TFLOPS

FirePro W5100

1.428 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290

VS

FirePro W5100

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Mar 2014

Volcanic Islands

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

40

Compute Units

12

-

2560

Shading Units

768

160

TMUs

48

64

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

60.61 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

14.88 GPixel/s

151.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

44.64 GTexel/s

-

4.849 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1428 GFLOPS

606.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

89.28 GFLOPS

Board Design

275W

TDP

50W

600 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 Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

Bonaire

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

GPU Variant

Bonaire PRO GL

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.3

Shader Model

6.3

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