AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM vs AMD FirePro W9100
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2013
Mar 2014
Generation
Sea Islands
FirePro
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
850 MHz
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Boost Clock
925 MHz
—
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
3GB
16GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
384bit
512bit
Bandwidth
240.0GB/s
320.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
28
44
Shading Units
1792
2816
TMUs
112
176
ROPs
32
64
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
768 KB
1024 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
29.60 GPixel/s
59.52 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
103.6 GTexel/s
163.7 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
3.315 TFLOPS
5.238 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
828.8 GFLOPS
2.619 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Tahiti
Hawaii
GPU Variant
Tahiti PRO(215-0821056)
Hawaii GL44
Architecture
GCN 1.0
GCN 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
4.313 billion
6.2 billion
Die Size
352 mm²
438 mm²
Board Design
TDP
200W
275W
Suggested PSU
550 W
600 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.21x S-Video
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.2
Shader Model
5.1
6.3
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.