AMD Radeon Pro WX 8100 vs AMD Radeon R9 290

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AMD Radeon Pro WX 8100 AMD Radeon R9 290

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro WX 8100 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro WX 8100 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1500MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (230W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro WX 8100 +121%

10.75 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290

4.849 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro WX 8100

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Radeon R9 290

Graphics Card

Dec 2017

Release Date

Nov 2013

Radeon Pro

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1200 MHz

Base Clock

-

1500 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

2048bit

Memory Bus

512bit

512.0GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

56

Compute Units

40

3584

Shading Units

2560

224

TMUs

160

64

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

96.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

60.61 GPixel/s

336.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

151.5 GTexel/s

21.50 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

10.75 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.849 TFLOPS

672.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

606.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

Hawaii

Vega 10 XL (215-0894216)

GPU Variant

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

GCN 5.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

495 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Board Design

230W

TDP

275W

550 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.3

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