AMD FirePro W8100 vs ATI Radeon X1550 PCI

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM FirePro W8100 and 256MB VRAM Radeon X1550 PCI to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W8100 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 5 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 4.256GB/s)

2560 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon X1550 PCI 's Advantages

Lower TDP (27W vs 220W)

Score

FirePro W8100

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Radeon X1550 PCI

Graphics Card

Jun 2014

Release Date

Jan 2007

FirePro

Generation

Radeon R500 PCIe

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

266 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

512bit

Memory Bus

64bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

4.256GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

40

Compute Units

-

2560

Shading Units

-

160

TMUs

4

64

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

52.74 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.808 GPixel/s

131.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1.808 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

4.219 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

2.109 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

RV516

Hawaii GL40

GPU Variant

-

GCN 2.0

Architecture

R500

TSMC

Foundry

UMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

0.107 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

100 mm²

Board Design

220W

TDP

27W

550 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

4x DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.1

2.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.3

Shader Model

3.0

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