AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2 vs AMD FirePro S9100

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2

AMD FirePro S9100

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 X2 and 12GB VRAM FirePro S9100 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro S9100 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 1 months late

More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)

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

1600 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (225W vs 254W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6850 X2

1.536 TFLOPS

FirePro S9100 +174%

4.219 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850 X2

VS

FirePro S9100

Graphics Card

Sep 2011

Release Date

Oct 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

2GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

40

-

960

Shading Units

2560

48

TMUs

160

32

ROPs

64

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

52.74 GPixel/s

38.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

131.8 GTexel/s

-

1.536 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.219 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

2.109 TFLOPS

Board Design

254W

TDP

225W

600 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

Hawaii

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

GPU Variant

Hawaii GL40

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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