AMD Radeon R9 290X vs AMD FirePro S7000

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290X

AMD FirePro S7000

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X and 4GB VRAM FirePro S7000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290X 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 2 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro S7000 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 290W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X +131%

5.632 TFLOPS

FirePro S7000

2.432 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X

VS

FirePro S7000

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Aug 2012

Volcanic Islands

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

20

-

2816

Shading Units

1280

176

TMUs

80

64

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

30.40 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

76.00 GTexel/s

-

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.432 TFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

152.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

290W

TDP

150W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

Pitcairn

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

Pitcairn XT GL (215-0828073)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

212 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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