AMD FirePro S9100 vs AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM

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AMD FirePro S9100

AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM FirePro S9100 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 255 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro S9100 's Advantages

Released 10 months late

More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 73.60GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM 's Advantages

Boost Clock930MHz

Lower TDP (65W vs 225W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro S9100 +343%

4.219 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 255 OEM

0.952 TFLOPS

FirePro S9100

VS

Radeon R9 255 OEM

Graphics Card

Oct 2014

Release Date

Dec 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

930 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1150 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

73.60GB/s

Render Config

40

Compute Units

8

-

2560

Shading Units

512

160

TMUs

32

64

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

52.74 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

14.88 GPixel/s

131.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

29.76 GTexel/s

-

4.219 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

952.3 GFLOPS

2.109 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

59.52 GFLOPS

Board Design

225W

TDP

65W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

Cape Verde

Hawaii GL40

GPU Variant

Cape Verde PRX

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.3

Shader Model

5.1

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