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 Vega Frontier Edition
CORE STATE
Vega 10
VRAM
16 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1600 MHz
TDP
300 W
BUS WIDTH
2048 bit
ARCHITECTURE
GCN 5.0
PROCESS
14 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2017
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_metal
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
FirePro W8000
Vega Frontier Edition
Core Specs
Shading Units
1,792
4,096
+128.6%
Shaders
1,792
4,096
+128.6%
TMUs
112
256
+128.6%
ROPs
32
64
+100.0%
Compute Units
28
64
+128.6%
Clocks
Base Clock
—
1382 MHz
Boost Clock
—
1600 MHz
GPU Clock
900 MHz
—
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
5.5 Gbps effective
945 MHz
1890 Mbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
4 GB
16 GB
VRAM (MB)
4,096
16,384
+300.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
HBM2
Memory Bus
256 bit
2048 bit
Bandwidth
176.0 GB/s
483.8 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
512 KB
4 MB
Performance
Pixel Rate
28.80 GPixel/s
102.4 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
100.8 GTexel/s
409.6 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
3.226 TFLOPS
13.11 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
806.4 GFLOPS (1:4)
819.2 GFLOPS (1:16)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
—
26.21 TFLOPS (2:1)
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
GCN 5.0
GPU Name
Tahiti
Vega 10
Generation
FirePro GCN
(Wx000)
Radeon Pro Vega
(Vega Series)
Process Size
28 nm
14 nm
Transistors
4,313 million
12,500 million
Die Size
352 mm²
495 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
GlobalFoundries
Density
12.3M / mm²
25.3M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (12_1)
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
267 mm
10.5 inches
Height
111 mm
4.4 inches
111 mm
4.4 inches
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.21x SDI
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Other
Launch Price
1,599 USD
999 USD
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
FirePro Terascale
Radeon Pro Polaris
Successor
Radeon Pro Polaris
Radeon Pro Navi