GPU Comparison
RADEON
AMD FirePro W5000
CORE STATE
Pitcairn
VRAM
2 GB
CLOCK SPEED
—
TDP
75 W
BUS WIDTH
256 bit
ARCHITECTURE
GCN 1.0
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2012
VS
RADEON
Radeon HD 8950M
CORE STATE
Saturn
VRAM
2 GB
CLOCK SPEED
—
TDP
100 W
BUS WIDTH
128 bit
ARCHITECTURE
GCN 2.0
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2013
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
FirePro W5000
HD 8950M
Core Specs
Shading Units
768
768
0.0%
Shaders
768
768
0.0%
TMUs
48
48
0.0%
ROPs
32
16
-50.0%
Compute Units
12
12
0.0%
Clocks
GPU Clock
825 MHz
1075 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
3.2 Gbps effective
1375 MHz
5.5 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
2 GB
2 GB
VRAM (MB)
2,048
2,048
0.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256 bit
128 bit
Bandwidth
102.4 GB/s
88.00 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
512 KB
256 KB
Performance
Pixel Rate
26.40 GPixel/s
17.20 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
39.60 GTexel/s
51.60 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
1,267.2 GFLOPS
1.651 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
79.20 GFLOPS (1:16)
103.2 GFLOPS (1:16)
Power
TDP
75 W
100 W
TDP (W)
75
100
+33.3%
Suggested PSU
250 W
—
Power Connectors
None
—
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 1.0
GCN 2.0
GPU Name
Pitcairn
Saturn
Generation
FirePro GCN
(Wx000)
Solar System
(HD 8900M)
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
2,800 million
2,080 million
Die Size
212 mm²
160 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Density
13.2M / mm²
13.0M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
1.2.170
1.2.170
OpenCL
2.1 (1.2)
2.1
Shader Model
6.5 (5.1)
6.5
Physical
Slot Width
Single-slot
MXM Module
Length
183 mm
7.2 inches
—
Height
111 mm
4.4 inches
—
Outputs
1x DVI2x DisplayPort 1.2
Portable Device Dependent
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Other
Launch Price
599 USD
—
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
FirePro Terascale
London
Successor
Radeon Pro Polaris
Gem System