FirePro W8000 and Radeon R9 270 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score FirePro W8000 vs Radeon R9 270
FirePro W8000
4218
Radeon R9 270
4435
FirePro W8000
Radeon R9 270
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
Tahiti
Curacao
Market segment
Workstation
Desktop
Release date
June 2012
November 2013
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
PCIe 3.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
1 x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
-
925 MHz
Core clock speed
900 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
3,226 gflops
2,368 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
4,313 million
2,800 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1792
1280
Power consumption (TDP)
225 Watt
150 Watt
Texture fill rate
100.8
74.00
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
5500 MHz
-
Memory bandwidth
176 GB/s
179.2 GB/s
Display Connectors
4x DisplayPort, 1x SDI
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
Eyefinity
-
1
DisplayPort count
4
-
Dual-link DVI support
1
-
HDMI
-
+
DisplayPort support
-
+
DirectX
12 (11_1)
DirectX® 12
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
1.2.131
+
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
-
1
DDMA audio
-
+
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
-
1
HD3D
-
+
LiquidVR
-
1
PowerTune
-
-
StereoOutput3D
1
-
TressFX
-
1
TrueAudio
-
+
UVD
-
+
ZeroCore
-
-