AMD FirePro W8000 vs ATI Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition

Comparative analysis of AMD FirePro W8000 and ATI Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition 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

ATI Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD FirePro W8000

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 9 month(s) later
Around 38% higher core clock speed: 900 MHz vs 650 MHz
9.7x more texture fill rate: 100.8 GTexel / s vs 10.4 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 90 nm
8x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 512 MB
2.8x more memory clock speed: 5500 MHz vs 2000 MHz
27.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 4096 vs 151

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	14 June 2012 vs 10 September 2006
Core clock speed	900 MHz vs 650 MHz
Texture fill rate	100.8 GTexel / s vs 10.4 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	5500 MHz vs 2000 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	4096 vs 151

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	466 vs 464

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD FirePro W8000
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

4096

151

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

464

466

Name	AMD FirePro W8000	ATI Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition
PassMark - G3D Mark	4096	151
PassMark - G2D Mark	464	466
Geekbench - OpenCL	82941
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	ATI Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	R500
Code name	Tahiti	R580+
Launch date	14 June 2012	10 September 2006
Launch price (MSRP)	$1,599
Place in performance rating	408	328
Type	Workstation	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	900 MHz	650 MHz
Floating-point performance	3,226 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	1792
Texture fill rate	100.8 GTexel / s	10.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	350 Watt
Transistor count	4,313 million	384 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	4x DisplayPort, 1x SDI	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
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	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	279 mm
Supplementary power connectors	2x 6-pin	1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_1)	9.0c
OpenGL	4.5	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	176 GB / s	64.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	5500 MHz	2000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR4