GPU Comparison
RADEON
AMD FirePro W5100
CORE STATE
Bonaire
VRAM
4 GB
CLOCK SPEED
—
TDP
50 W
BUS WIDTH
128 bit
ARCHITECTURE
GCN 2.0
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2014
VS
RADEON
Radeon HD 6950
CORE STATE
Cayman
VRAM
2 GB
CLOCK SPEED
—
TDP
200 W
BUS WIDTH
256 bit
ARCHITECTURE
TeraScale 3
PROCESS
40 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2010
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
FirePro W5100
HD 6950
Core Specs
Shading Units
768
1,408
+83.3%
Shaders
768
1,408
+83.3%
TMUs
48
88
+83.3%
ROPs
16
32
+100.0%
Compute Units
12
22
+83.3%
Clocks
GPU Clock
930 MHz
800 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
6 Gbps effective
1250 MHz
5 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
4 GB
2 GB
VRAM (MB)
4,096
2,048
-50.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128 bit
256 bit
Bandwidth
96.00 GB/s
160.0 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
8 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
256 KB
512 KB
Performance
Pixel Rate
14.88 GPixel/s
25.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
44.64 GTexel/s
70.40 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
1,428.5 GFLOPS
2.253 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
89.28 GFLOPS (1:16)
563.2 GFLOPS (1:4)
Power
TDP
50 W
200 W
TDP (W)
50
200
+300.0%
Suggested PSU
250 W
550 W
Power Connectors
None
2x 6-pin
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 2.0
TeraScale 3
GPU Name
Bonaire
Cayman
Generation
FirePro GCN
(Wx100)
Northern Islands
(HD 6900)
Process Size
28 nm
40 nm
Transistors
2,080 million
2,640 million
Die Size
160 mm²
389 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Density
13.0M / mm²
6.8M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (12_0)
11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
Vulkan
1.2.170
—
OpenCL
2.1
1.2
Shader Model
6.5
5.0
Physical
Slot Width
Single-slot
Dual-slot
Length
173 mm
6.8 inches
286 mm
11.3 inches
Height
111 mm
4.4 inches
126 mm
5 inches
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.2
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Other
Launch Price
—
299 USD
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
FirePro Terascale
Evergreen
Successor
Radeon Pro Polaris
Southern Islands