AMD FirePro W9000 vs AMD Radeon 550X 640SP

VS

AMD FirePro W9000

AMD Radeon 550X 640SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM FirePro W9000 and 4GB VRAM Radeon 550X 640SP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W9000 's Advantages

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 48.00GB/s)

1408 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon 550X 640SP 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1071MHz

Lower TDP (50W vs 274W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W9000 +191%

3.994 TFLOPS

Radeon 550X 640SP

1.371 TFLOPS

FirePro W9000

VS

Radeon 550X 640SP

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Apr 2018

FirePro

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1019 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1071 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

64bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

48.00GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

10

-

2048

Shading Units

640

128

TMUs

40

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

31.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.14 GPixel/s

124.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

42.84 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

1371 GFLOPS

3.994 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1371 GFLOPS

998.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

85.68 GFLOPS

Board Design

274W

TDP

50W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Lexa

Tahiti XT GL

GPU Variant

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

103 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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