AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2 vs AMD FirePro W9000

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 X2 and 6GB VRAM FirePro W9000 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 274W)

AMD FirePro W9000 's Advantages

Released 9 months late

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

1088 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6850 X2

1.536 TFLOPS

FirePro W9000 +160%

3.994 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850 X2

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FirePro W9000

Graphics Card

Sep 2011

Release Date

Jun 2012

Northern Islands

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

12

Compute Units

32

960

Shading Units

2048

48

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.20 GPixel/s

38.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

124.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.536 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.994 TFLOPS

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FP64 (double)

998.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

Tahiti

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT GL

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

254W

TDP

274W

600 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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