AMD FirePro W8000 vs AMD Radeon RX 590

GPU Specs Compare

G

AMD FirePro W8000

AMD 2012-06
G

AMD Radeon RX 590

AMD 2018-11

Graphics Card

Release Date
Jun 2012
Nov 2018
Generation
FirePro
Polaris
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Memory Clock
1375 MHz
2000 MHz
Base Clock
-
1469 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1545 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
4GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
176.0GB/s
256.0GB/s

Render Config

Compute Units
28
36
Shading Units
1792
2304
TMUs
112
144
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
512 KB
2 MB

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
28.80 GPixel/s
49.44 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
100.8 GTexel/s
222.5 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
3.226 TFLOPS
7.119 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
806.4 GFLOPS
445.0 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
7.119 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
Tahiti
Polaris 30
GPU Variant
Tahiti PRO GL
Polaris 30 XT(215-0922006)
Architecture
GCN 1.0
GCN 4.0
Foundry
TSMC
GlobalFoundries
Process Size
28 nm
12 nm
Transistors
4.313 billion
5.7 billion
Die Size
352 mm²
232 mm²

Board Design

TDP
225W
175W
Suggested PSU
550 W
450 W
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.21x SDI
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
1x 8-pin

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