AMD FirePro S9300 X2 vs AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

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AMD FirePro S9300 X2

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM FirePro S9300 X2 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro S9300 X2 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

2304 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM 's Advantages

Boost Clock925MHz

Lower TDP (200W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro S9300 X2 +140%

7.987 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950 OEM

3.315 TFLOPS

FirePro S9300 X2

VS

Radeon HD 8950 OEM

Graphics Card

Mar 2016

Release Date

Jan 2013

FirePro

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

850 MHz

-

Boost Clock

925 MHz

500 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

3GB

HBM

Memory Type

GDDR5

4096bit

Memory Bus

384bit

512.0GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

64

Compute Units

28

-

4096

Shading Units

1792

256

TMUs

112

64

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

62.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

249.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

103.6 GTexel/s

-

7.987 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.315 TFLOPS

499.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

828.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

300W

TDP

200W

700 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

No outputs

Outputs

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

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Capsaicin

GPU Name

Tahiti

Capsaicin XT

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

GCN 3.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

8.9 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

596 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.0

Shader Model

5.1

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