GPU Comparison
RADEON
AMD FirePro W8000
CORE STATE
Tahiti
VRAM
4 GB
CLOCK SPEED
—
TDP
225 W
BUS WIDTH
256 bit
ARCHITECTURE
GCN 1.0
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2012
VS
RADEON
Radeon 540
CORE STATE
Lexa
VRAM
1024 MB
CLOCK SPEED
—
TDP
50 W
BUS WIDTH
32 bit
ARCHITECTURE
GCN 4.0
PROCESS
14 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2017
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
FirePro W8000
540
Core Specs
Shading Units
1,792
384
-78.6%
Shaders
1,792
384
-78.6%
TMUs
112
24
-78.6%
ROPs
32
16
-50.0%
Compute Units
28
6
-78.6%
Clocks
GPU Clock
900 MHz
1183 MHz
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
5.5 Gbps effective
1500 MHz
6 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
4 GB
1024 MB
VRAM (MB)
4,096
1,024
-75.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256 bit
32 bit
Bandwidth
176.0 GB/s
24.00 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
512 KB
512 KB
Performance
Pixel Rate
28.80 GPixel/s
18.93 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
100.8 GTexel/s
28.39 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
3.226 TFLOPS
908.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
806.4 GFLOPS (1:4)
56.78 GFLOPS (1:16)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
—
908.5 GFLOPS (1:1)
Power
TDP
225 W
50 W
TDP (W)
225
50
-77.8%
Suggested PSU
550 W
250 W
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
None
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 1.0
GCN 4.0
GPU Name
Tahiti
Lexa
Generation
FirePro GCN
(Wx000)
Polaris
(RX 500)
Process Size
28 nm
14 nm
Transistors
4,313 million
2,200 million
Die Size
352 mm²
103 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
GlobalFoundries
Density
12.3M / mm²
21.4M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
1.2.170
1.3
OpenCL
2.1 (1.2)
2.1
Shader Model
6.5 (5.1)
6.7
Physical
Slot Width
Dual-slot
Single-slot
Length
279 mm
11 inches
—
Height
111 mm
4.4 inches
—
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.21x SDI
2x DisplayPort 1.4a
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
Other
Launch Price
1,599 USD
—
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
FirePro Terascale
Arctic Islands
Successor
Radeon Pro Polaris
Vega