AMD Radeon R9 290X2 vs AMD FirePro S9300 X2

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AMD Radeon R9 290X2

AMD FirePro S9300 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 and 4GB VRAM FirePro S9300 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro S9300 X2 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 9 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 345.6GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (300W vs 580W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X2

5.632 TFLOPS

FirePro S9300 X2 +41%

7.987 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X2

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FirePro S9300 X2

Graphics Card

Jun 2014

Release Date

Mar 2016

Volcanic Islands

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1350 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM

512bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

345.6GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

64

-

2816

Shading Units

4096

176

TMUs

256

64

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

62.40 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

249.6 GTexel/s

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5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.987 TFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

499.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

580W

TDP

300W

950 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

4x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

Capsaicin

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

Capsaicin XT

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

8.9 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

596 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

6.0

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