AMD Radeon RX 480 vs AMD FirePro S9100

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 480 and 12GB VRAM FirePro S9100 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 480 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1266MHz

Lower TDP (150W vs 225W)

AMD FirePro S9100 's Advantages

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 480 +38%

5.834 TFLOPS

FirePro S9100

4.219 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 480

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FirePro S9100

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

Oct 2014

Arctic Islands

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1120 MHz

Base Clock

-

1266 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

36

Compute Units

40

2304

Shading Units

2560

144

TMUs

160

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

40.51 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

52.74 GPixel/s

182.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

131.8 GTexel/s

5.834 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.834 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.219 TFLOPS

364.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

2.109 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

Hawaii

Polaris 10 XT (215-0876184)

GPU Variant

Hawaii GL40

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

225W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.3

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