FirePro W8100 and Radeon HD 6870M - video card comparison

FirePro W8100

Radeon HD 6870M

Architecture

GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)

Terascale 2 (2009−2015)

GPU code name

Hawaii

Granville-PRO

Market segment

Workstation

Laptop

Release date

June 2014

January 2011

Bus support

PCIe 3.0

-

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

MXM-B (3.0)

Supplementary power connectors

2x 6-pin

-

Core clock speed

824 MHz

675 MHz

Floating-point performance

4,219 gflops

1,080.0 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

40 nm

Number of transistors

6,200 million

1,040 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2560

800

Power consumption (TDP)

220 Watt

50 Watt

Texture fill rate

131.8

27.00

Memory type

GDDR5

DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

8 GB

1 GB

Memory bus width

512 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

5000 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

320 GB/s

64 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

4x DisplayPort, 1x SDI

No outputs

DisplayPort count

4

-

Dual-link DVI support

1

-

HD сomponent video output

1

-

DirectX

12 (12_0)

11.2 (11_0)

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

OpenGL

4.6

4.4

Shader Model

6.3

5.0

Vulkan

1.2.131

N/A

StereoOutput3D

1

-