AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition vs AMD FirePro W8100

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AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition AMD FirePro W8100

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Vega Frontier Edition and 8GB VRAM FirePro W8100 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 3 years late

Boost Clock1600MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro W8100 's Advantages

Lower TDP (220W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition +210%

13.11 TFLOPS

FirePro W8100

4.219 TFLOPS

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

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FirePro W8100

Graphics Card

Jun 2017

Release Date

Jun 2014

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

1250 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

8GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

2048bit

Memory Bus

512bit

483.8GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

64

Compute Units

40

4096

Shading Units

2560

256

TMUs

160

64

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

102.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

52.74 GPixel/s

409.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

131.8 GTexel/s

26.21 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

13.11 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.219 TFLOPS

819.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

2.109 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

Hawaii

Vega 10 XTX AIR

GPU Variant

Hawaii GL40

GCN 5.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

495 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

220W

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 Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.3

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