AMD FirePro W9000 vs AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM

VS

AMD FirePro W9000

AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM FirePro W9000 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8990 OEM 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 3GB)

Lower TDP (274W vs 375W)

AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM 's Advantages

Released 10 months late

Boost Clock1000MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 264.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W9000

3.994 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8990 OEM +2%

4.096 TFLOPS

FirePro W9000

VS

Radeon HD 8990 OEM

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Apr 2013

FirePro

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

950 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

384bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

32

-

2048

Shading Units

2048

128

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

31.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

124.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.0 GTexel/s

-

3.994 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.096 TFLOPS

998.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1024 GFLOPS

Board Design

274W

TDP

375W

600 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

Outputs

1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Malta

Tahiti XT GL

GPU Variant

Malta XT (215-0849026)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

365 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

Related GPU Comparisons

1

AMD FirePro W9000 vs AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT

2

AMD FirePro W9000 vs NVIDIA GeForce 505 OEM

3

AMD FirePro W9000 vs NVIDIA RTX A1000

4

AMD FirePro W9000 vs AMD Radeon R5 330 OEM

5

AMD FirePro W9000 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 530 OEM

6

AMD FirePro W9000 vs AMD Radeon Pro SSG

7

AMD FirePro W9000 vs ATI Radeon HD 3690

8

AMD FirePro W9000 vs AMD Radeon R5 240 OEM

9

AMD FirePro W9000 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

10

AMD FirePro W9000 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti OEM

Related News

1

Strix Halo Integrated Graphics Score Appears on Passmark, Currently Slightly Below RTX 3060 12GB

2

AMD Unveils New RX 9070 XT Graphics Card Performance: Positioned Between RX 7900 GRE and RX 7900 XT

3

Double the Excitement! AMD FSR 4.0 to Launch Alongside RX 9070 XT Graphics Card

4

CPU-Z Minor Update: Support for Intel's Four New Products and New Memory

5

CXMT Reportedly Achieves 80% Yield in DDR5 Production

6

Intel Wildcat Lake Appears on Shipping List with FCBGA1516 Socket, Poised to Replace Alder Lake-N

7

The Commencement of ARM and Qualcomm Licensing Dispute Trial: Potential Major Impact on PC Market

8

NVIDIA Allegedly Equips RTX 5080 with 30Gbps Memory Speed, Other Models to Feature 28Gbps

9

Intel Reports High Return Rates for Devices Featuring Snapdragon X Series; Qualcomm Counters with 'Industry Standard' Claim

10

Intel Confirms Panther Lake Adopts 18A Process, ES0 Samples Already Sent to Customers