AMD FirePro W8100
The AMD FirePro W8100 is a high-performance workstation GPU designed for professionals who require powerful graphics processing capabilities. With 8GB of GDDR5 memory and a memory clock speed of 1250MHz, this GPU offers impressive memory bandwidth and performance for demanding tasks such as 3D rendering, visual effects, and scientific simulations.
One of the standout features of the FirePro W8100 is its 2560 shading units, which allow for complex shading and rendering operations with ease. The 1024KB L2 cache further enhances the GPU's ability to handle large datasets and complex calculations, making it well-suited for professional applications in fields such as computer-aided design (CAD) and content creation.
With a TDP of 220W and a theoretical performance of 4.219 TFLOPS, the FirePro W8100 offers excellent performance-per-watt, making it an efficient choice for professional workstations. This GPU is capable of handling 4K resolution and multiple displays, making it suitable for multimedia and design work that demands high levels of detail and precision.
Overall, the AMD FirePro W8100 is a reliable and high-performing GPU that delivers the power and efficiency needed for professional graphics and compute workloads. Its combination of high memory capacity, impressive shading units, and efficient performance makes it a solid choice for professionals in need of a powerful workstation GPU.
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Basic
Label Name
AMD
Platform
Desktop
Launch Date
June 2014
Model Name
FirePro W8100
Generation
FirePro
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Transistors
6,200 million
Compute Units
40
TMUs
?
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) serve as components of the GPU, which are capable of rotating, scaling, and distorting binary images, and then placing them as textures onto any plane of a given 3D model. This process is called texture mapping.
160
Foundry
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
Architecture
GCN 2.0
Memory Specifications
Memory Size
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
Memory Bus
?
The memory bus width refers to the number of bits of data that the video memory can transfer within a single clock cycle. The larger the bus width, the greater the amount of data that can be transmitted instantaneously, making it one of the crucial parameters of video memory. The memory bandwidth is calculated as: Memory Bandwidth = Memory Frequency x Memory Bus Width / 8. Therefore, when the memory frequencies are similar, the memory bus width will determine the size of the memory bandwidth.
512bit
Memory Clock
1250MHz
Bandwidth
?
Memory bandwidth refers to the data transfer rate between the graphics chip and the video memory. It is measured in bytes per second, and the formula to calculate it is: memory bandwidth = working frequency × memory bus width / 8 bits.
320.0 GB/s
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
?
Pixel fill rate refers to the number of pixels a graphics processing unit (GPU) can render per second, measured in MPixels/s (million pixels per second) or GPixels/s (billion pixels per second). It is the most commonly used metric to evaluate the pixel processing performance of a graphics card.
52.74 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
?
Texture fill rate refers to the number of texture map elements (texels) that a GPU can map to pixels in a single second.
131.8 GTexel/s
FP64 (double)
?
An important metric for measuring GPU performance is floating-point computing capability. Double-precision floating-point numbers (64-bit) are required for scientific computing that demands a wide numeric range and high accuracy, while single-precision floating-point numbers (32-bit) are used for common multimedia and graphics processing tasks. Half-precision floating-point numbers (16-bit) are used for applications like machine learning, where lower precision is acceptable.
2.109 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
?
An important metric for measuring GPU performance is floating-point computing capability. Single-precision floating-point numbers (32-bit) are used for common multimedia and graphics processing tasks, while double-precision floating-point numbers (64-bit) are required for scientific computing that demands a wide numeric range and high accuracy. Half-precision floating-point numbers (16-bit) are used for applications like machine learning, where lower precision is acceptable.
4.135
TFLOPS
Miscellaneous
Shading Units
?
The most fundamental processing unit is the Streaming Processor (SP), where specific instructions and tasks are executed. GPUs perform parallel computing, which means multiple SPs work simultaneously to process tasks.
2560
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
1024KB
TDP
220W
Vulkan Version
?
Vulkan is a cross-platform graphics and compute API by Khronos Group, offering high performance and low CPU overhead. It lets developers control the GPU directly, reduces rendering overhead, and supports multi-threading and multi-core processors.
1.2
OpenCL Version
2.0
OpenGL
4.6
DirectX
12 (12_0)
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Shader Model
6.3
ROPs
?
The Raster Operations Pipeline (ROPs) is primarily responsible for handling lighting and reflection calculations in games, as well as managing effects like anti-aliasing (AA), high resolution, smoke, and fire. The more demanding the anti-aliasing and lighting effects in a game, the higher the performance requirements for the ROPs; otherwise, it may result in a sharp drop in frame rate.
64
Suggested PSU
550W
Benchmarks
FP32 (float)
Score
4.135
TFLOPS
Compared to Other GPU
FP32 (float)
/ TFLOPS