
FirePro W8000 and Radeon Sky 500 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score FirePro W8000 vs Radeon Sky 500
FirePro W8000
4218
Radeon Sky 500
4906
FirePro W8000
Radeon Sky 500
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
Tahiti
Pitcairn
Market segment
Workstation
Desktop
Release date
June 2012
March 2013
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
PCIe 3.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
1x 6-pin
Core clock speed
900 MHz
950 MHz
Floating-point performance
3,226 gflops
2,432 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
76.00
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
5500 MHz
4800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
176 GB/s
154 GB/s
Display Connectors
4x DisplayPort, 1x SDI
1x DisplayPort
DisplayPort count
4
1
Dual-link DVI support
1
1
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
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