AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM vs AMD FirePro W8000

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM AMD FirePro W8000

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950 OEM and 4GB VRAM FirePro W8000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM 's Advantages

Released 7 months late

Boost Clock925MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (200W vs 225W)

AMD FirePro W8000 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8950 OEM +2%

3.315 TFLOPS

FirePro W8000

3.226 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950 OEM

VS

FirePro W8000

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Jun 2012

Sea Islands

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

-

925 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

28

Compute Units

28

1792

Shading Units

1792

112

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

103.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

100.8 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

-

3.315 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.226 TFLOPS

828.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

806.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Tahiti

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO GL

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

200W

TDP

225W

550 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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