AMD Radeon R9 290X vs AMD FirePro S7150

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290X

AMD FirePro S7150

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X and 8GB VRAM FirePro S7150 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 160.0GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro S7150 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Lower TDP (150W vs 290W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X +49%

5.632 TFLOPS

FirePro S7150

3.768 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X

VS

FirePro S7150

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Feb 2016

Volcanic Islands

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

32

-

2816

Shading Units

2048

176

TMUs

128

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

29.44 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

117.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

7.537 TFLOPS

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.768 TFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

235.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

290W

TDP

150W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

Tonga

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

Tonga XT GL

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

5 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

366 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.3

Shader Model

6.3

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