AMD FirePro W9100 vs AMD Radeon HD 6990

VS

AMD FirePro W9100

AMD Radeon HD 6990

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM FirePro W9100 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6990 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W9100 's Advantages

Released 3 years late

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (275W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W9100 +105%

5.238 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6990

2.55 TFLOPS

FirePro W9100

VS

Radeon HD 6990

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Mar 2011

FirePro

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

24

-

2816

Shading Units

1536

176

TMUs

96

64

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

59.52 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

26.56 GPixel/s

163.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

79.68 GTexel/s

-

5.238 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.550 TFLOPS

2.619 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

637.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

275W

TDP

375W

600 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

Antilles

Hawaii GL44

GPU Variant

Antilles XT (215-0807027)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 3

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

2.64 billion

438 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

-

6.3

Shader Model

5.0

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