AMD FirePro W8100 vs ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO

Comparative analysis of AMD FirePro W8100 and ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO 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 - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD FirePro W8100

• Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 6 month(s) later
• Around 37% higher core clock speed: 824 MHz vs 600 MHz
• 13.7x more texture fill rate: 131.8 GTexel / s vs 9.6 GTexel / s
• 8x more pipelines: 2560 vs 320
• 11x better floating-point performance: 4,219 gflops vs 384.0 gflops
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 80 nm
• 16x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 512 MB
• 3.1x more memory clock speed: 5000 MHz vs 1600 MHz
• 11.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 7333 vs 628
• Around 83% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 727 vs 397

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO

• Around 10% lower typical power consumption: 200 Watt vs 220 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD FirePro W8100
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	7333 628
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	727 397

Compare specifications (specs)