AMD Radeon RX 580 vs AMD FirePro W8000

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580 and 4GB VRAM FirePro W8000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 580 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1340MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (185W vs 225W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 580 +91%

6.175 TFLOPS

FirePro W8000

3.226 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580

VS

FirePro W8000

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Jun 2012

Polaris

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1257 MHz

Base Clock

-

1340 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

36

Compute Units

28

2304

Shading Units

1792

144

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

42.88 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

193.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

100.8 GTexel/s

6.175 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.175 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.226 TFLOPS

385.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

806.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Polaris 20

GPU Name

Tahiti

Polaris 20 XTX (215-0910038)

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO GL

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

185W

TDP

225W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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