Product Compare
AMD FirePro W8100 vs ATI Radeon HD 5970
| GPU | GPU | |
|---|---|---|
| Graphics Card | ||
| Release Date | Jun 2014 | Nov 2009 |
| Generation | FirePro | Evergreen |
| Type | Desktop | Desktop |
| Bus Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | PCIe 2.0 x16 |
| Clock Speeds | ||
| Memory Clock | 1250 MHz | 1000 MHz |
| Memory | ||
| Memory Size | 8GB | 1024MB |
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Memory Bus | 512bit | 256bit |
| Bandwidth | 320.0GB/s | 128.0GB/s |
| Render Config | ||
| Compute Units | 40 | 20 |
| Shading Units | 2560 | 1600 |
| TMUs | 160 | 80 |
| ROPs | 64 | 32 |
| L1 Cache | 16 KB (per CU) | 8 KB (per CU) |
| L2 Cache | 1024 KB | 512 KB |
| Theoretical Performance | ||
| Pixel Rate | 52.74 GPixel/s | 23.20 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 131.8 GTexel/s | 58.00 GTexel/s |
| FP32 (float) | 4.219 TFLOPS | 2.320 TFLOPS |
| FP64 (double) | 2.109 TFLOPS | 464.0 GFLOPS |
| Graphics Processor | ||
| GPU Name | Hawaii | Hemlock |
| GPU Variant | Hawaii GL40 | Hemlock XT(215-0735075) |
| Architecture | GCN 2.0 | TeraScale 2 |
| Foundry | TSMC | TSMC |
| Process Size | 28 nm | 40 nm |
| Transistors | 6.2 billion | 2.154 billion |
| Die Size | 438 mm² | 334 mm² |
| Board Design | ||
| TDP | 220W | 294W |
| Suggested PSU | 550 W | 600 W |
| Outputs | 4x DisplayPort 1.21x SDI | 2x DVI1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1 |
| Power Connectors | 2x 6-pin | 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin |
| Graphics Features | ||
| DirectX | 12 (12_0) | 11.2 (11_0) |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.4 |
| OpenCL | 2.0 | 1.2 |
| Vulkan | 1.2 | N/A |
| Shader Model | 6.3 | 5.0 |