FirePro W8000 and FirePro V7900 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score FirePro W8000 vs FirePro V7900
FirePro W8000
4218
FirePro V7900
2373
FirePro W8000
FirePro V7900
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
TeraScale 3 (2010−2013)
GPU code name
Tahiti
Cayman
Market segment
Workstation
Workstation
Release date
June 2012
May 2011
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
PCIe 2.1 x16
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
1x 6-pin
Core clock speed
900 MHz
725 MHz
Floating-point performance
3,226 gflops
1,856.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
4,313 million
2,640 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1792
1280
Power consumption (TDP)
225 Watt
151 Watt
Texture fill rate
100.8
58.00
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
5500 MHz
5000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
176 GB/s
160 GB/s
Display Connectors
4x DisplayPort, 1x SDI
4x DisplayPort
DisplayPort count
4
4
Dual-link DVI support
1
1
DirectX
12 (11_1)
11.2 (11_0)
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
Shader Model
5.1
5.0
Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A
StereoOutput3D
1
1