AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition vs AMD FirePro W8000

VS

AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

AMD FirePro W8000

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Vega Frontier Edition and 4GB VRAM FirePro W8000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition 's Advantages

Released 5 years late

Boost Clock1600MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)

2304 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro W8000 's Advantages

Lower TDP (225W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition +306%

13.11 TFLOPS

FirePro W8000

3.226 TFLOPS

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

VS

FirePro W8000

Graphics Card

Jun 2017

Release Date

Jun 2012

Radeon Pro

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1382 MHz

Base Clock

-

1600 MHz

Boost Clock

-

945 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

4GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

2048bit

Memory Bus

256bit

483.8GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/s

Render Config

64

Compute Units

28

-

4096

Shading Units

1792

256

TMUs

112

64

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

102.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

409.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

100.8 GTexel/s

26.21 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

13.11 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.226 TFLOPS

819.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

806.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

300W

TDP

225W

700 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

Tahiti

Vega 10 XTX AIR

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO GL

GCN 5.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

495 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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