Product Compare
AMD FirePro W8000 vs AMD Radeon HD 6950
| GPU | GPU | |
|---|---|---|
| Graphics Card | ||
| Release Date | Jun 2012 | Dec 2010 |
| Generation | FirePro | Northern Islands |
| Type | Desktop | Desktop |
| Bus Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | PCIe 2.0 x16 |
| Clock Speeds | ||
| Memory Clock | 1375 MHz | 1250 MHz |
| Memory | ||
| Memory Size | 4GB | 2GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Memory Bus | 256bit | 256bit |
| Bandwidth | 176.0GB/s | 160.0GB/s |
| Render Config | ||
| Compute Units | 28 | 22 |
| Shading Units | 1792 | 1408 |
| TMUs | 112 | 88 |
| ROPs | 32 | 32 |
| L1 Cache | 16 KB (per CU) | 8 KB (per CU) |
| L2 Cache | 512 KB | 512 KB |
| Theoretical Performance | ||
| Pixel Rate | 28.80 GPixel/s | 25.60 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 100.8 GTexel/s | 70.40 GTexel/s |
| FP32 (float) | 3.226 TFLOPS | 2.253 TFLOPS |
| FP64 (double) | 806.4 GFLOPS | 563.2 GFLOPS |
| Graphics Processor | ||
| GPU Name | Tahiti | Cayman |
| GPU Variant | Tahiti PRO GL | Cayman PRO(215-0807019) |
| Architecture | GCN 1.0 | TeraScale 3 |
| Foundry | TSMC | TSMC |
| Process Size | 28 nm | 40 nm |
| Transistors | 4.313 billion | 2.64 billion |
| Die Size | 352 mm² | 389 mm² |
| Board Design | ||
| TDP | 225W | 200W |
| Suggested PSU | 550 W | 550 W |
| Outputs | 4x DisplayPort 1.21x SDI | 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 |
| Power Connectors | 2x 6-pin | 2x 6-pin |
| Graphics Features | ||
| DirectX | 12 (11_1) | 11.2 (11_0) |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.4 |
| OpenCL | 1.2 | 1.2 |
| Vulkan | 1.2 | N/A |
| Shader Model | 5.1 | 5.0 |