AMD Radeon R9 270 vs AMD FirePro S9050

VS

AMD Radeon R9 270

AMD FirePro S9050

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270 and 12GB VRAM FirePro S9050 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 270 's Advantages

Boost Clock925MHz

Lower TDP (150W vs 225W)

AMD FirePro S9050 's Advantages

Released 9 months late

More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 179.2GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 270

2.368 TFLOPS

FirePro S9050 +36%

3.226 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270

VS

FirePro S9050

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Aug 2014

Volcanic Islands

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

-

925 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

28

-

1280

Shading Units

1792

80

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

74.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

100.8 GTexel/s

-

2.368 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.226 TFLOPS

148.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

806.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

225W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Curacao

GPU Name

Tahiti

Curacao PRO (215-0848000)

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO GL

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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