AMD FirePro W8000 vs AMD Radeon HD 6990M Crossfire

Comparative analysis of AMD FirePro W8000 and AMD Radeon HD 6990M Crossfire videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

AMD FirePro W8000

AMD Radeon HD 6990M Crossfire

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD FirePro W8000

Videocard is newer: launch date 11 month(s) later
Around 26% higher core clock speed: 900 MHz vs 715 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
6.1x more memory clock speed: 5500 MHz vs 900 MHz

Launch date	14 June 2012 vs 12 July 2011
Core clock speed	900 MHz vs 715 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 40 nm
Memory clock speed	5500 MHz vs 900 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6990M Crossfire

Around 25% higher pipelines: 2240 vs 1792

Pipelines	2240 vs 1792

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD FirePro W8000
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 6990M Crossfire

Name	AMD FirePro W8000	AMD Radeon HD 6990M Crossfire
PassMark - G3D Mark	4164
PassMark - G2D Mark	528
Geekbench - OpenCL	24518
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	64.628
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	387.109
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	7400
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3357
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	7400
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3357

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD FirePro W8000	AMD Radeon HD 6990M Crossfire
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	Terascale 2
Code name	Tahiti	Blackcomb XTX
Launch date	14 June 2012	12 July 2011
Launch price (MSRP)	$1,599
Place in performance rating	441	not rated
Type	Workstation	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	900 MHz	715 MHz
Floating-point performance	3,226 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	1792	2240
Texture fill rate	100.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	350 Watt
Transistor count	4,313 million	2x1700 Million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	4x DisplayPort, 1x SDI
DisplayPort count	4
Dual-link DVI support
StereoOutput3D
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCIe 3.0
Form factor	Full Height / Full Length
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	279 mm
Supplementary power connectors	2x 6-pin
Laptop size		large
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_1)	11
OpenGL	4.5
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	2x2 GB
Memory bandwidth	176 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	5500 MHz	900 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Shared memory		0