AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2 vs AMD FirePro S9300 X2

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2

AMD FirePro S9300 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 X2 and 4GB VRAM FirePro S9300 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (254W vs 300W)

AMD FirePro S9300 X2 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

3136 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6850 X2

1.536 TFLOPS

FirePro S9300 X2 +419%

7.987 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850 X2

VS

FirePro S9300 X2

Graphics Card

Sep 2011

Release Date

Mar 2016

Northern Islands

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM

256bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

64

-

960

Shading Units

4096

48

TMUs

256

32

ROPs

64

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

62.40 GPixel/s

38.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

249.6 GTexel/s

-

1.536 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.987 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

499.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

254W

TDP

300W

600 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

Capsaicin

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

GPU Variant

Capsaicin XT

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

8.9 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

596 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

6.0

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