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 HD 8790M
CORE STATE
Mars
VRAM
2 GB
CLOCK SPEED
900 MHz
TDP
—
BUS WIDTH
128 bit
ARCHITECTURE
GCN 1.0
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2013
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
FirePro W8000
HD 8790M
Core Specs
Shading Units
1,792
384
-78.6%
Shaders
1,792
384
-78.6%
TMUs
112
24
-78.6%
ROPs
32
8
-75.0%
Compute Units
28
6
-78.6%
Clocks
Base Clock
—
850 MHz
Boost Clock
—
900 MHz
GPU Clock
900 MHz
—
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
5.5 Gbps effective
1000 MHz
4 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
64.00 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
512 KB
256 KB
Performance
Pixel Rate
28.80 GPixel/s
7.200 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
100.8 GTexel/s
21.60 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
3.226 TFLOPS
691.2 GFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
806.4 GFLOPS (1:4)
43.20 GFLOPS (1:16)
Power
TDP
225 W
—
TDP (W)
225
—
Suggested PSU
550 W
—
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
None
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 1.0
GCN 1.0
GPU Name
Tahiti
Mars
Generation
FirePro GCN
(Wx000)
Solar System
(HD 8700M)
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
4,313 million
950 million
Die Size
352 mm²
77 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Density
12.3M / mm²
12.3M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
1.2.170
1.2.170
OpenCL
2.1 (1.2)
2.1 (1.2)
Shader Model
6.5 (5.1)
6.5 (5.1)
Physical
Slot Width
Dual-slot
MXM Module
Length
279 mm
11 inches
—
Height
111 mm
4.4 inches
—
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.21x SDI
Portable Device Dependent
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
MXM-A (3.0)
Other
Launch Price
1,599 USD
—
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
FirePro Terascale
London
Successor
Radeon Pro Polaris
Gem System