AMD FirePro W9100 vs AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

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AMD FirePro W9100 AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM FirePro W9100 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 W9100 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (16GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM 's Advantages

Boost Clock925MHz

Lower TDP (200W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W9100 +58%

5.238 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950 OEM

3.315 TFLOPS

FirePro W9100

VS

Radeon HD 8950 OEM

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

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

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

384bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

44

Compute Units

28

2816

Shading Units

1792

176

TMUs

112

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

59.52 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

163.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

103.6 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

5.238 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.315 TFLOPS

2.619 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

828.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

Tahiti

Hawaii GL44

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

275W

TDP

200W

600 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 1x S-Video

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.3

Shader Model

5.1

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