AMD Radeon R9 290X vs AMD FirePro W5100

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290X

AMD FirePro W5100

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

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

2048 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro W5100 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 290W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X +294%

5.632 TFLOPS

FirePro W5100

1.428 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X

VS

FirePro W5100

Graphics Card

Oct 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

44

Compute Units

12

-

2816

Shading Units

768

176

TMUs

48

64

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

14.88 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

44.64 GTexel/s

-

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1428 GFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

89.28 GFLOPS

Board Design

290W

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 XT (215-0852000)

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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