AMD Radeon RX 470 (Desktop) vs AMD FirePro W8100

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 470 (Desktop) and AMD FirePro W8100 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 470 (Desktop)

• Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 1 month(s) later
• Around 12% higher core clock speed: 926 MHz vs 824 MHz
• Around 17% higher texture fill rate: 154.4 GTexel / s vs 131.8 GTexel / s
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
• Around 83% lower typical power consumption: 120 Watt vs 220 Watt
• Around 32% higher memory clock speed: 6600 MHz vs 5000 MHz
• Around 9% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 7979 vs 7333
• Around 20% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 111.543 vs 93.339
• Around 8% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 9.511 vs 8.816
• Around 16% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 511.362 vs 440.107
• Around 82% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 9983 vs 5494
• Around 82% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 9983 vs 5494

Reasons to consider the AMD FirePro W8100

• Around 25% higher pipelines: 2560 vs 2048
• 861x better floating-point performance: 4,219 gflops vs 4.9 TFLOPs
• 2x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 4 GB
• Around 3% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 34705 vs 33724
• Around 28% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 2333.922 vs 1817.005
• Around 13% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 112.45 vs 99.875
• Around 51% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3699 vs 2443
• 2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3349 vs 1674
• Around 51% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3699 vs 2443
• 2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3349 vs 1674

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 470 (Desktop)
GPU 2: AMD FirePro W8100

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	7979 7333
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	724 727
Geekbench - OpenCL	GPU 1 GPU 2	33724 34705
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	111.543 93.339
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1817.005 2333.922
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	9.511 8.816
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	99.875 112.45
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	511.362 440.107
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	9983 5494
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2443 3699
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1674 3349
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	9983 5494
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2443 3699
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1674 3349

Compare specifications (specs)