AMD Radeon R9 290X vs AMD FirePro W8100

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

256 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro W8100 's Advantages

Released 8 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Lower TDP (220W vs 290W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X +33%

5.632 TFLOPS

FirePro W8100

4.219 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X

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FirePro W8100

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Jun 2014

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Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

512bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

44

Compute Units

40

2816

Shading Units

2560

176

TMUs

160

64

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

52.74 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

131.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.219 TFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

2.109 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

Hawaii

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

Hawaii GL40

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Board Design

290W

TDP

220W

600 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

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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