GPU Comparison

A

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

A

AMD

RADEON

Radeon RX 6900 XT

CORE STATE Navi 21

VRAM 16 GB

CLOCK SPEED 2250 MHz

TDP 300 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE RDNA 2.0

nm

PROCESS 7 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2020

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

geekbench_opencl

24,518

167,057

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

N/A

4,079

geekbench_metal

N/A

207,444

geekbench_vulkan

N/A

166,636

passmark_directx_10

N/A

167

passmark_directx_11

N/A

279

passmark_directx_12

N/A

113

passmark_directx_9

N/A

268

passmark_g2d

N/A

1,055

passmark_g3d

N/A

26,732

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

14,547

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

FirePro W8000

RX 6900 XT

Core Specs

Shading Units

1,792

5,120 +185.7%

Shaders

1,792

5,120 +185.7%

TMUs

112

320 +185.7%

ROPs

32

128 +300.0%

Compute Units

28

80 +185.7%

Clocks

Base Clock

—

1825 MHz

Boost Clock

—

2250 MHz

GPU Clock

900 MHz

—

Game Clock

—

2015 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz 5.5 Gbps effective

2000 MHz 16 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

4 GB

16 GB

VRAM (MB)

4,096

16,384 +300.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Memory Bus

256 bit

256 bit

Bandwidth

176.0 GB/s

512.0 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

128 KB per Array

L2 Cache

512 KB

4 MB

L3 Cache

—

128 MB

L0 Cache

—

32 KB per WGP

Performance

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

288.0 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

100.8 GTexel/s

720.0 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

3.226 TFLOPS

23.04 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

806.4 GFLOPS (1:4)

1,440.0 GFLOPS (1:16)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

46.08 TFLOPS (2:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

80

Power

TDP

225 W

300 W

TDP (W)

225

300 +33.3%

Suggested PSU

550 W

700 W

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

2x 8-pin

Architecture

Architecture

GCN 1.0

RDNA 2.0

GPU Name

Tahiti

Navi 21

Generation

FirePro GCN (Wx000)

Navi II (RX 6000)

Process Size

28 nm

7 nm

Transistors

4,313 million

26,800 million

Die Size

352 mm²

520 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

12.3M / mm²

51.5M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (11_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.2.170

1.4

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

2.1

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Triple-slot

Length

279 mm 11 inches

267 mm 10.5 inches

Height

111 mm 4.4 inches

120 mm 4.7 inches

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.21x SDI

1x HDMI 2.12x DisplayPort 1.4a1x USB Type-C

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

1,599 USD

999 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

FirePro Terascale

Navi

Successor

Radeon Pro Polaris

Navi III

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