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 R9 M290X
CORE STATE
Neptune
VRAM
4 GB
CLOCK SPEED
900 MHz
TDP
100 W
BUS WIDTH
256 bit
ARCHITECTURE
GCN 1.0
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2014
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_metal
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
FirePro W8000
R9 M290X
Core Specs
Shading Units
1,792
1,280
-28.6%
Shaders
1,792
1,280
-28.6%
TMUs
112
80
-28.6%
ROPs
32
32
0.0%
Compute Units
28
20
-28.6%
Clocks
Base Clock
—
850 MHz
Boost Clock
—
900 MHz
GPU Clock
900 MHz
—
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
5.5 Gbps effective
1200 MHz
4.8 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
4 GB
4 GB
VRAM (MB)
4,096
4,096
0.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256 bit
256 bit
Bandwidth
176.0 GB/s
153.6 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
512 KB
512 KB
Performance
Pixel Rate
28.80 GPixel/s
28.80 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
100.8 GTexel/s
72.00 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
3.226 TFLOPS
2.304 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
806.4 GFLOPS (1:4)
144.0 GFLOPS (1:16)
Power
TDP
225 W
100 W
TDP (W)
225
100
-55.6%
Suggested PSU
550 W
—
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
None
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 1.0
GCN 1.0
GPU Name
Tahiti
Neptune
Generation
FirePro GCN
(Wx000)
Gem System
(R9 M200)
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
4,313 million
2,800 million
Die Size
352 mm²
212 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Density
12.3M / mm²
13.2M / 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
PCIe 3.0 x16
Other
Launch Price
1,599 USD
—
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
FirePro Terascale
Solar System
Successor
Radeon Pro Polaris
Polaris Mobile