Product Compare

AMD FirePro W8000 vs AMD Radeon RX 560

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Jun 2012 Apr 2017
Generation FirePro Polaris
Type Desktop Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x8
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock 1375 MHz 1750 MHz
Base Clock 1175 MHz
Boost Clock 1275 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 4GB 4GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Bus 256bit 128bit
Bandwidth 176.0GB/s 112.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 28 16
Shading Units 1792 1024
TMUs 112 64
ROPs 32 16
L1 Cache 16 KB (per CU) 16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache 512 KB 1024 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 28.80 GPixel/s 20.40 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 100.8 GTexel/s 81.60 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 3.226 TFLOPS 2.611 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 806.4 GFLOPS 163.2 GFLOPS
FP16 (half) 2.611 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Tahiti Polaris 21
GPU Variant Tahiti PRO GL Polaris 21 XT(215-0908004)
Architecture GCN 1.0 GCN 4.0
Foundry TSMC GlobalFoundries
Process Size 28 nm 14 nm
Transistors 4.313 billion 3 billion
Die Size 352 mm² 123 mm²
Board Design
TDP 225W 75W
Suggested PSU 550 W 250 W
Outputs 4x DisplayPort 1.21x SDI 1x DVI1x HDMI 2.0b1x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors 2x 6-pin None
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 (11_1) 12 (12_0)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 2.1
Vulkan 1.2 1.2
Shader Model 5.1 6.4