AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 vs AMD FirePro W9100

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 56 and 16GB VRAM FirePro W9100 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1471MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (409.6GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (210W vs 275W)

AMD FirePro W9100 's Advantages

More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX Vega 56 +101%

10.54 TFLOPS

FirePro W9100

5.238 TFLOPS

Radeon RX Vega 56

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FirePro W9100

Graphics Card

Aug 2017

Release Date

Mar 2014

Vega

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1156 MHz

Base Clock

-

1471 MHz

Boost Clock

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

16GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

2048bit

Memory Bus

512bit

409.6GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

56

Compute Units

44

3584

Shading Units

2816

224

TMUs

176

64

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

94.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

59.52 GPixel/s

329.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

163.7 GTexel/s

21.09 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

10.54 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.238 TFLOPS

659.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

2.619 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

Hawaii

Vega 10 XL (215-0894216)

GPU Variant

Hawaii GL44

GCN 5.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

495 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Board Design

210W

TDP

275W

550 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 1x S-Video

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

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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