AMD FirePro W9000 vs AMD Radeon R9 290X

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM FirePro W9000 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 W9000 's Advantages

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Lower TDP (274W vs 290W)

AMD Radeon R9 290X 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 4 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 264.0GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W9000

3.994 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X +41%

5.632 TFLOPS

FirePro W9000

VS

Radeon R9 290X

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Oct 2013

FirePro

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

512bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

32

Compute Units

44

2048

Shading Units

2816

128

TMUs

176

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

31.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

124.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.994 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.632 TFLOPS

998.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

704.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Hawaii

Tahiti XT GL

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Board Design

274W

TDP

290W

600 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

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 Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.3

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