AMD FirePro W8000 vs AMD Radeon R9 270

GPU Specs Compare

G

AMD FirePro W8000

AMD 2012-06
G

AMD Radeon R9 270

AMD 2013-11

Graphics Card

Release Date
Jun 2012
Nov 2013
Generation
FirePro
Volcanic Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Memory Clock
1375 MHz
1400 MHz
Base Clock
-
900 MHz
Boost Clock
-
925 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
4GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
176.0GB/s
179.2GB/s

Render Config

Compute Units
28
20
Shading Units
1792
1280
TMUs
112
80
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
512 KB
512 KB

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
28.80 GPixel/s
29.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
100.8 GTexel/s
74.00 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
3.226 TFLOPS
2.368 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
806.4 GFLOPS
148.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
Tahiti
Curacao
GPU Variant
Tahiti PRO GL
Curacao PRO(215-0848000)
Architecture
GCN 1.0
GCN 1.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
4.313 billion
2.8 billion
Die Size
352 mm²
212 mm²

Board Design

TDP
225W
150W
Suggested PSU
550 W
450 W
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.21x SDI
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
Vulkan
1.2
1.2
Shader Model
5.1
5.1

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