AMD Radeon R9 290X vs AMD FirePro S10000 Passive 12GB

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290X

AMD FirePro S10000 Passive 12GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X and 6GB VRAM FirePro S10000 Passive 12GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290X 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (290W vs 375W)

AMD FirePro S10000 Passive 12GB 's Advantages

Boost Clock950MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X +65%

5.632 TFLOPS

FirePro S10000 Passive 12GB

3.405 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X

VS

FirePro S10000 Passive 12GB

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Mar 2014

Volcanic Islands

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

825 MHz

-

Boost Clock

950 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

384bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

28

-

2816

Shading Units

1792

176

TMUs

112

64

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

30.40 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

106.4 GTexel/s

-

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.405 TFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

851.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

290W

TDP

375W

600 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

Tahiti

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

Orthrus

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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