AMD FirePro S9300 X2 vs AMD Radeon HD 6950

VS

AMD FirePro S9300 X2

AMD Radeon HD 6950

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM FirePro S9300 X2 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6950 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro S9300 X2 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)

2688 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6950 's Advantages

Lower TDP (200W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro S9300 X2 +254%

7.987 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950

2.253 TFLOPS

FirePro S9300 X2

VS

Radeon HD 6950

Graphics Card

Mar 2016

Release Date

Dec 2010

FirePro

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

500 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

HBM

Memory Type

GDDR5

4096bit

Memory Bus

256bit

512.0GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

64

Compute Units

22

-

4096

Shading Units

1408

256

TMUs

88

64

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

62.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

25.60 GPixel/s

249.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

70.40 GTexel/s

-

7.987 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.253 TFLOPS

499.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

563.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

300W

TDP

200W

700 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

No outputs

Outputs

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

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Capsaicin

GPU Name

Cayman

Capsaicin XT

GPU Variant

Cayman PRO (215-0807019)

GCN 3.0

Architecture

TeraScale 3

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

8.9 billion

Transistors

2.64 billion

596 mm²

Die Size

389 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.0

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.0

Shader Model

5.0

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