AMD FirePro S9050 vs AMD Radeon R9 270

VS

AMD FirePro S9050

AMD Radeon R9 270

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM FirePro S9050 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro S9050 's Advantages

Released 9 months late

More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 179.2GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 270 's Advantages

Boost Clock925MHz

Lower TDP (150W vs 225W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro S9050 +36%

3.226 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270

2.368 TFLOPS

FirePro S9050

VS

Radeon R9 270

Graphics Card

Aug 2014

Release Date

Nov 2013

FirePro

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

900 MHz

-

Boost Clock

925 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

179.2GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

20

-

1792

Shading Units

1280

112

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

100.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

74.00 GTexel/s

-

3.226 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.368 TFLOPS

806.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

148.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

225W

TDP

150W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Curacao

Tahiti PRO GL

GPU Variant

Curacao PRO (215-0848000)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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