AMD FirePro W9000 vs AMD Radeon HD 8950M
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jun 2012
May 2013
Generation
FirePro
Solar System
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
1375 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
6GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
384bit
128bit
Bandwidth
264.0GB/s
88.00GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
32
12
Shading Units
2048
768
TMUs
128
48
ROPs
32
16
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
768 KB
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
31.20 GPixel/s
17.20 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
124.8 GTexel/s
51.60 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
3.994 TFLOPS
1.651 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
998.4 GFLOPS
103.2 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Tahiti
Saturn
GPU Variant
Tahiti XT GL
Saturn XT
Architecture
GCN 1.0
GCN 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
4.313 billion
2.08 billion
Die Size
352 mm²
160 mm²
Board Design
TDP
274W
100W
Suggested PSU
600 W
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Outputs
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.21x SDI
No outputs
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
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Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.2
Shader Model
5.1
6.3
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.