Radeon R9 290X and FirePro W8100 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 290X vs FirePro W8100
Radeon R9 290X
7648
FirePro W8100
7497
Radeon R9 290X
FirePro W8100
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code name
Hawaii XT
Hawaii
Market segment
Desktop
Workstation
Release date
October 2013
June 2014
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
PCIe 3.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1 x 6-pin + 1 x 8-pin
2x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
947 MHz
-
Core clock speed
-
824 MHz
Floating-point performance
5,632 gflops
4,219 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
6,200 million
6,200 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2816
2560
Power consumption (TDP)
250 Watt
220 Watt
Texture fill rate
176.0
131.8
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
512 Bit
512 Bit
Memory clock speed
1250 MHz
5000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
320 GB/s
320 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
4x DisplayPort, 1x SDI
Eyefinity
+
-
DisplayPort count
-
4
Dual-link DVI support
-
1
HD сomponent video output
-
1
HDMI
+
-
DisplayPort support
+
-
DirectX
DirectX® 12
12 (12_0)
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
2.0
2.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.3
6.3
Vulkan
+
1.2.131
AppAcceleration
+
-
CrossFire
1
-
DDMA audio
+
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
+
-
LiquidVR
1
-
PowerTune
-
-
StereoOutput3D
-
1
TressFX
1
-
TrueAudio
+
-
UVD
+
-
ZeroCore
-
-