AMD Radeon Sky 900 vs AMD FirePro W8000

VS

AMD Radeon Sky 900

AMD FirePro W8000

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon Sky 900 and 4GB VRAM FirePro W8000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Sky 900 's Advantages

Released 9 months late

Boost Clock950MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)

AMD FirePro W8000 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (225W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Sky 900 +5%

3.405 TFLOPS

FirePro W8000

3.226 TFLOPS

Radeon Sky 900

VS

FirePro W8000

Graphics Card

Mar 2013

Release Date

Jun 2012

Radeon Sky

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

825 MHz

Base Clock

-

950 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

28

-

1792

Shading Units

1792

112

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

30.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

106.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

100.8 GTexel/s

-

3.405 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.226 TFLOPS

851.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

806.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

300W

TDP

225W

700 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Tahiti

Orthrus

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO GL

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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