AMD FirePro W8100 vs AMD Radeon HD 7950

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM FirePro W8100 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W8100 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 7950 's Advantages

Lower TDP (200W vs 220W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W8100 +47%

4.219 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950

2.867 TFLOPS

FirePro W8100

VS

Radeon HD 7950

Graphics Card

Jun 2014

Release Date

Jan 2012

FirePro

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

384bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

40

Compute Units

28

2560

Shading Units

1792

160

TMUs

112

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

52.74 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

25.60 GPixel/s

131.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

89.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

4.219 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.867 TFLOPS

2.109 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

716.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

Tahiti

Hawaii GL40

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

220W

TDP

200W

550 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

4x DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

Outputs

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.3

Shader Model

5.1

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