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 550X
CORE STATE
Lexa
VRAM
2 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1218 MHz
TDP
50 W
BUS WIDTH
128 bit
ARCHITECTURE
GCN 4.0
PROCESS
14 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2019
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
geekbench_opencl
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
FirePro W8000
550X
Core Specs
Shading Units
1,792
512
-71.4%
Shaders
1,792
512
-71.4%
TMUs
112
32
-71.4%
ROPs
32
16
-50.0%
Compute Units
28
8
-71.4%
Clocks
Base Clock
—
1082 MHz
Boost Clock
—
1218 MHz
GPU Clock
900 MHz
—
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
5.5 Gbps effective
1750 MHz
7 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
4 GB
2 GB
VRAM (MB)
4,096
2,048
-50.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256 bit
128 bit
Bandwidth
176.0 GB/s
112.0 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
19.49 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
100.8 GTexel/s
38.98 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
3.226 TFLOPS
1,247.2 GFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
806.4 GFLOPS (1:4)
77.95 GFLOPS (1:16)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
—
1,247.2 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 500X)
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
Dual-slot
Length
279 mm
11 inches
145 mm
5.7 inches
Height
111 mm
4.4 inches
—
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.21x SDI
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.0b1x 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
Polaris
Successor
Radeon Pro Polaris
Vega