3D Rage IIC PCI vs FirePro W8000
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2MB VRAM 3D Rage IIC PCI and 4GB VRAM FirePro W8000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
FirePro W8000 's Advantages
Released 15 years and 2 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 0.664GB/s)
1792 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Apr 1997
Release Date
Jun 2012
Rage 2
Generation
FirePro
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCI
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
83 MHz
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
Memory
2MB
Memory Size
4GB
SDR
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
256bit
0.664GB/s
Bandwidth
176.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
28
-
Shading Units
1792
1
TMUs
112
1
ROPs
32
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
-
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
60.00 MPixel/s
Pixel Rate
28.80 GPixel/s
60.00 MTexel/s
Texture Rate
100.8 GTexel/s
-
FP32 (float)
3.226 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
806.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
225W
200 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x VGA
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.2
1x SDI
-
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Rage IIC
GPU Name
Tahiti
Rage IIC PCI
(215R2PZUA21)
GPU Variant
Tahiti PRO GL
Rage 2
Architecture
GCN 1.0
UMC
Foundry
TSMC
500 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.005 billion
Transistors
4.313 billion
39 mm²
Die Size
352 mm²
Graphics Features
5.0
DirectX
12 (11_1)
N/A
OpenGL
4.6
N/A
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
-
Shader Model
5.1
