AMD Radeon HD 6790 vs AMD FirePro W9100

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6790

AMD FirePro W9100

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6790 and 16GB VRAM FirePro W9100 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6790 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 275W)

AMD FirePro W9100 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (16GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

2016 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6790

1.344 TFLOPS

FirePro W9100 +289%

5.238 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6790

VS

FirePro W9100

Graphics Card

Apr 2011

Release Date

Mar 2014

Northern Islands

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

44

-

800

Shading Units

2816

40

TMUs

176

16

ROPs

64

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

13.44 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

59.52 GPixel/s

33.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

163.7 GTexel/s

-

1344 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.238 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

2.619 TFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

275W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

Hawaii

Barts LE (215-0798002)

GPU Variant

Hawaii GL44

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.3

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