AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition vs AMD FirePro W9100

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AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition AMD FirePro W9100

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition 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 6850 1440SP Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (151W vs 275W)

AMD FirePro W9100 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (16GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

1376 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

2.088 TFLOPS

FirePro W9100 +150%

5.238 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

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FirePro W9100

Graphics Card

Aug 2012

Release Date

Mar 2014

Northern Islands

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

18

Compute Units

44

1440

Shading Units

2816

72

TMUs

176

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

59.52 GPixel/s

52.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

163.7 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.088 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.238 TFLOPS

417.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

2.619 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

Hawaii

Cypress PRO (215-0735043)

GPU Variant

Hawaii GL44

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Board Design

151W

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 Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.3

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