AMD Radeon R9 290X vs AMD FirePro W2100

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X and 2GB VRAM FirePro W2100 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290X 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

2496 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro W2100 's Advantages

Released 10 months late

Boost Clock680MHz

Lower TDP (26W vs 290W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X +1194%

5.632 TFLOPS

FirePro W2100

0.435 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X

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FirePro W2100

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Aug 2014

Volcanic Islands

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

630 MHz

-

Boost Clock

680 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

44

Compute Units

5

2816

Shading Units

320

176

TMUs

20

64

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.440 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

13.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

435.2 GFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

27.20 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

Oland

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

0.95 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

77 mm²

Board Design

290W

TDP

26W

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

2x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

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CUDA

-

6.3

Shader Model

5.1

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