FirePro W8100 vs Radeon HD 7950

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between FirePro W8100 and Radeon HD 7950, 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 HD 7950, check out specs charts below.

Main Specs

  FirePro W8100 Radeon HD 7950
Power consumption (TDP) 220 Watt 200 Watt
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors 2x 6-pin 2x 6-pin
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 3 GB
Display Connectors 4x DisplayPort, 1x SDI 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
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  • FirePro W8100 has 10% more power consumption, than Radeon HD 7950.
  • Both video cards are using PCIe 3.0 x16 interface connection to a motherboard.
  • FirePro W8100 has 5 GB more memory, than Radeon HD 7950.
  • Both cards are used in Desktops.
  • FirePro W8100 is build with GCN 2.0 architecture, and Radeon HD 7950 - with GCN 1.0.
  • FirePro W8100 and Radeon HD 7950 are manufactured by 28 nm process technology.
  • FirePro W8100 is 12 mm longer, than Radeon HD 7950.
  • Memory clock speed of FirePro W8100 is 3750 MHz higher, than Radeon HD 7950.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 35−40 35−40
ultra / 1080p 21−24 21−24
QHD / 1440p 16−18 16−18
4K / 2160p 10−11 10−11
low / 720p 60−65 60−65
medium / 1080p 40−45 40−45
FirePro W8100 and Radeon HD 7950 have the same average FPS in Assassin's Creed Odyssey.

Full Specs

  FirePro W8100 Radeon HD 7950
Architecture GCN 2.0 GCN 1.0
Code name Hawaii Tahiti
Type Workstation Desktop
Release date 23 June 2014 31 January 2012
Pipelines 2560 1792
Core clock speed 824 MHz
Boost Clock 1250 MHz
Transistor count 6,200 million 4,313 million
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 28 nm
Texture fill rate 131.8 89.60
Floating-point performance 4,219 gflops 2,867 gflops
Length 279 mm 267 mm
Memory bus width 512 Bit 384 Bit
Memory clock speed 5000 MHz 1250 MHz
Memory bandwidth 320 GB/s 240 GB/s
DirectX 12 (12_0)
Shader Model 6.3 5.1
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.0 1.2
Vulkan 1.2.131
Monero / XMR (CryptoNight) 0.56 kh/s
FreeSync +
Bus support PCIe 3.0 PCIe 3.0 x16
HDMI +
Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) 466 Mh/s 381 Mh/s
Eyefinity +
PowerTune +
ZeroCore +
Design reference
Number of Eyefinity displays 6
CrossFire +
Decred / DCR (Decred) 0.78 Gh/s
Ethereum / ETH (DaggerHashimoto) 13.86 Mh/s
Zcash / ZEC (Equihash) 250 Sol/s
Compute units 28
Form factor full height / full length
StereoOutput3D +
DisplayPort count 4
Dual-link DVI support +
AppAcceleration +
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