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 M295X
CORE STATE
Amethyst
VRAM
4 GB
CLOCK SPEED
—
TDP
250 W
BUS WIDTH
256 bit
ARCHITECTURE
GCN 3.0
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2014
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_metal
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
FirePro W8000
R9 M295X
Core Specs
Shading Units
1,792
2,048
+14.3%
Shaders
1,792
2,048
+14.3%
TMUs
112
128
+14.3%
ROPs
32
32
0.0%
Compute Units
28
32
+14.3%
Clocks
GPU Clock
900 MHz
723 MHz
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
5.5 Gbps effective
1250 MHz
5 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
160.0 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
23.14 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
100.8 GTexel/s
92.54 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
3.226 TFLOPS
2.961 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
806.4 GFLOPS (1:4)
185.1 GFLOPS (1:16)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
—
2.961 TFLOPS (1:1)
Power
TDP
225 W
250 W
TDP (W)
225
250
+11.1%
Suggested PSU
550 W
—
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
None
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 1.0
GCN 3.0
GPU Name
Tahiti
Amethyst
Generation
FirePro GCN
(Wx000)
Gem System
(R9 M200)
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
4,313 million
5,000 million
Die Size
352 mm²
366 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Density
12.3M / mm²
13.7M / 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
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-B (3.0)
Other
Launch Price
1,599 USD
—
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
FirePro Terascale
Solar System
Successor
Radeon Pro Polaris
Polaris Mobile