AMD Radeon R9 290 vs AMD FirePro W9000

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290

AMD FirePro W9000

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 and 6GB VRAM FirePro W9000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 5 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 264.0GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro W9000 's Advantages

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Lower TDP (274W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290 +21%

4.849 TFLOPS

FirePro W9000

3.994 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290

VS

FirePro W9000

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Jun 2012

Volcanic Islands

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

384bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

40

Compute Units

32

-

2560

Shading Units

2048

160

TMUs

128

64

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

60.61 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.20 GPixel/s

151.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

124.8 GTexel/s

-

4.849 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.994 TFLOPS

606.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

998.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

275W

TDP

274W

600 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

Tahiti

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT GL

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.3

Shader Model

5.1

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