AMD FirePro S9100 vs AMD Radeon R9 290X

VS

AMD FirePro S9100

AMD Radeon R9 290X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM FirePro S9100 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro S9100 's Advantages

Released 1 years late

More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)

Lower TDP (225W vs 290W)

AMD Radeon R9 290X 's Advantages

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro S9100

4.219 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X +33%

5.632 TFLOPS

FirePro S9100

VS

Radeon R9 290X

Graphics Card

Oct 2014

Release Date

Oct 2013

FirePro

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

512bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

40

Compute Units

44

-

2560

Shading Units

2816

160

TMUs

176

64

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

52.74 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

131.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.0 GTexel/s

-

4.219 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.632 TFLOPS

2.109 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

704.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

225W

TDP

290W

550 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

No outputs

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

Hawaii

Hawaii GL40

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.3

Shader Model

6.3

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