AMD FirePro S9050 vs AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

VS

AMD FirePro S9050

AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM FirePro S9050 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro S9050 's Advantages

Released 2 years late

More VRAM (12GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

352 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (151W vs 225W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro S9050 +54%

3.226 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

2.088 TFLOPS

FirePro S9050

VS

Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

Graphics Card

Aug 2014

Release Date

Aug 2012

FirePro

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

18

-

1792

Shading Units

1440

112

TMUs

72

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.20 GPixel/s

100.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

52.20 GTexel/s

-

3.226 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.088 TFLOPS

806.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

417.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

225W

TDP

151W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Cypress

Tahiti PRO GL

GPU Variant

Cypress PRO (215-0735043)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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