AMD FirePro W9100 vs AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM

VS

AMD FirePro W9100

AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM FirePro W9100 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 255 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W9100 's Advantages

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 73.60GB/s)

2304 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM 's Advantages

Boost Clock930MHz

Lower TDP (65W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W9100 +450%

5.238 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 255 OEM

0.952 TFLOPS

FirePro W9100

VS

Radeon R9 255 OEM

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Dec 2013

FirePro

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

900 MHz

-

Boost Clock

930 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1150 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

73.60GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

8

-

2816

Shading Units

512

176

TMUs

32

64

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

59.52 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

14.88 GPixel/s

163.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

29.76 GTexel/s

-

5.238 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

952.3 GFLOPS

2.619 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

59.52 GFLOPS

Board Design

275W

TDP

65W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 1x S-Video

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

Cape Verde

Hawaii GL44

GPU Variant

Cape Verde PRX

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.3

Shader Model

5.1

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