AMD FirePro W8000 vs AMD Radeon Instinct MI8
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jun 2012
Dec 2016
Generation
FirePro
Radeon Instinct
Type
Desktop
Professional
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
500 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
HBM
Memory Bus
256bit
4096bit
Bandwidth
176.0GB/s
512.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
28
64
Shading Units
1792
4096
TMUs
112
256
ROPs
32
64
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
512 KB
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
28.80 GPixel/s
64.00 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
100.8 GTexel/s
256.0 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
3.226 TFLOPS
8.192 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
806.4 GFLOPS
512.0 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
—
8.192 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Tahiti
Fiji
GPU Variant
Tahiti PRO GL
Fiji XT CA(215-0862120)
Architecture
GCN 1.0
GCN 3.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
4.313 billion
8.9 billion
Die Size
352 mm²
596 mm²
Board Design
TDP
225W
175W
Suggested PSU
550 W
450 W
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.21x SDI
No outputs
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
2.1
Vulkan
1.2
1.2.170
Shader Model
5.1
6.5
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.