Product Compare

AMD Radeon RX 480 vs AMD FirePro W8000

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Jun 2016 Jun 2012
Generation Arctic Islands FirePro
Type Desktop Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock 1120 MHz
Boost Clock 1266 MHz
Memory Clock 2000 MHz 1375 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 8GB 4GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Bus 256bit 256bit
Bandwidth 256.0GB/s 176.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 36 28
Shading Units 2304 1792
TMUs 144 112
ROPs 32 32
L1 Cache 16 KB (per CU) 16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache 2 MB 512 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 40.51 GPixel/s 28.80 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 182.3 GTexel/s 100.8 GTexel/s
FP16 (half) 5.834 TFLOPS
FP32 (float) 5.834 TFLOPS 3.226 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 364.6 GFLOPS 806.4 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Ellesmere Tahiti
GPU Variant Polaris 10 XT(215-0876184) Tahiti PRO GL
Architecture GCN 4.0 GCN 1.0
Foundry GlobalFoundries TSMC
Process Size 14 nm 28 nm
Transistors 5.7 billion 4.313 billion
Die Size 232 mm² 352 mm²
Board Design
TDP 150W 225W
Suggested PSU 450 W 550 W
Outputs 1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a 4x DisplayPort 1.21x SDI
Power Connectors 1x 6-pin 2x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 (12_0) 12 (11_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.1 1.2
Vulkan 1.3 1.2
Shader Model 6.7 5.1