GPU Comparison

AMD
RADEON

AMD FirePro W8000

CORE STATE Tahiti
VRAM 4 GB
CLOCK SPEED
TDP 225 W
BUS WIDTH 256 bit
ARCHITECTURE GCN 1.0
nm
PROCESS 28 nm
LAUNCH DATE 2012
VS
AMD
RADEON

Radeon HD 6950

CORE STATE Cayman
VRAM 2 GB
CLOCK SPEED
TDP 200 W
BUS WIDTH 256 bit
ARCHITECTURE TeraScale 3
nm
PROCESS 40 nm
LAUNCH DATE 2010

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

geekbench_opencl
24,518
6,210

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION
FirePro W8000
HD 6950
Core Specs
Shading Units
1,792
1,408 -21.4%
Shaders
1,792
1,408 -21.4%
TMUs
112
88 -21.4%
ROPs
32
32 0.0%
Compute Units
28
22 -21.4%
Clocks
GPU Clock
900 MHz
800 MHz
Memory Clock
1375 MHz 5.5 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
256 bit
256 bit
Bandwidth
176.0 GB/s
160.0 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
8 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
512 KB
512 KB
Performance
Pixel Rate
28.80 GPixel/s
25.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
100.8 GTexel/s
70.40 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
3.226 TFLOPS
2.253 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
806.4 GFLOPS (1:4)
563.2 GFLOPS (1:4)
Power
TDP
225 W
200 W
TDP (W)
225
200 -11.1%
Suggested PSU
550 W
550 W
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
2x 6-pin
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TeraScale 3
GPU Name
Tahiti
Cayman
Generation
FirePro GCN (Wx000)
Northern Islands (HD 6900)
Process Size
28 nm
40 nm
Transistors
4,313 million
2,640 million
Die Size
352 mm²
389 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Density
12.3M / mm²
6.8M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (11_1)
11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
Vulkan
1.2.170
OpenCL
2.1 (1.2)
1.2
Shader Model
6.5 (5.1)
5.0
Physical
Slot Width
Dual-slot
Dual-slot
Length
279 mm 11 inches
286 mm 11.3 inches
Height
111 mm 4.4 inches
126 mm 5 inches
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.21x SDI
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Other
Launch Price
1,599 USD
299 USD
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
FirePro Terascale
Evergreen
Successor
Radeon Pro Polaris
Southern Islands
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