FirePro W8100 vs Radeon R5 Bristol Ridge

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between FirePro W8100 and Radeon R5 Bristol Ridge, there are a couple of things to consider. Cards with more VRAM in general perform better and allow you to play on higher graphics settings. Size also makes a difference. A model with a large heatsink can occupy up to three expansion slots on a motherboard. Be sure you have enough room in your PC case. When comparing GPUs with different architectures, more processing cores and even higher TFLOPS will not always translate to better performance. To help you decide which GPU you need, we have measured frame rates in a number of popular games. For more on how the FirePro W8100 stacks up against Radeon R5 Bristol Ridge, check out specs charts below.

Radeon R5 Bristol Ridge is a Laptop Graphics Card

Note: Radeon R5 Bristol Ridge is only used in laptop graphics. It has lower GPU clock speed compared to the desktop variant, which results in lower power consumption, but also 10-30% lower gaming performance. Check available laptop models with Radeon R5 Bristol Ridge here:

Main Specs

  FirePro W8100 Radeon R5 Bristol Ridge
Power consumption (TDP) 220 Watt 12-45 Watt
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors 2x 6-pin
Memory type GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB
Display Connectors 4x DisplayPort, 1x SDI
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  • FirePro W8100 has 1733% more power consumption, than Radeon R5 Bristol Ridge.
  • FirePro W8100 is used in Desktops, and Radeon R5 Bristol Ridge - in Laptops.
  • FirePro W8100 is build with GCN 2.0 architecture, and Radeon R5 Bristol Ridge - with GCN 1.2/2.0.
  • FirePro W8100 and Radeon R5 Bristol Ridge are manufactured by 28 nm process technology.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 35−40 3−4
ultra / 1080p 21−24 1−2
QHD / 1440p 16−18 0−1
4K / 2160p 10−11
low / 720p 60−65 14−16
medium / 1080p 40−45 5−6
The average gaming FPS of FirePro W8100 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 583% more, than Radeon R5 Bristol Ridge.

Full Specs

  FirePro W8100 Radeon R5 Bristol Ridge
Architecture GCN 2.0 GCN 1.2/2.0
Code name Hawaii Bristol Ridge
Type Workstation Laptop
Release date 23 June 2014 1 June 2016
Pipelines 2560 384
Core clock speed 824 MHz
Boost Clock 800 MHz
Transistor count 6,200 million 3100 Million
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 28 nm
Texture fill rate 131.8
Floating-point performance 4,219 gflops
Length 279 mm
Memory bus width 512 Bit 64/128 Bit
Memory clock speed 5000 MHz
Memory bandwidth 320 GB/s
Shared memory +
DirectX 12 (12_0) DirectX 12 (FL 12_0)
Shader Model 6.3
OpenGL 4.6
OpenCL 2.0
Vulkan 1.2.131
Bus support PCIe 3.0
Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) 466 Mh/s
Laptop size medium sized
Form factor full height / full length
StereoOutput3D +
DisplayPort count 4
Dual-link DVI support +
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