
FirePro W8000 and Radeon HD 7870 XT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score FirePro W8000 vs Radeon HD 7870 XT
FirePro W8000
4218
Radeon HD 7870 XT
4603
FirePro W8000
Radeon HD 7870 XT
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
Tahiti
Tahiti
Market segment
Workstation
Desktop
Release date
June 2012
November 2012
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
2x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
-
975 MHz
Core clock speed
900 MHz
925 MHz
Floating-point performance
3,226 gflops
2,995 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
4,313 million
4,313 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1792
1536
Power consumption (TDP)
225 Watt
185 Watt
Texture fill rate
100.8
93.60
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
5500 MHz
6000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
176 GB/s
192.0 GB/s
Display Connectors
4x DisplayPort, 1x SDI
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
DisplayPort count
4
-
Dual-link DVI support
1
-
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (11_1)
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.2.131
StereoOutput3D
1
-