AMD FirePro W9000 vs AMD Radeon Instinct MI6
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jun 2012
Dec 2016
Generation
FirePro
Radeon Instinct
Type
Desktop
Professional
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
1750 MHz
Base Clock
—
1120 MHz
Boost Clock
—
1233 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
6GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
384bit
256bit
Bandwidth
264.0GB/s
224.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
32
36
Shading Units
2048
2304
TMUs
128
144
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
768 KB
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
31.20 GPixel/s
39.46 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
124.8 GTexel/s
177.6 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
3.994 TFLOPS
5.682 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
998.4 GFLOPS
355.1 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
—
5.682 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Tahiti
Ellesmere
GPU Variant
Tahiti XT GL
Ellesmere XT
Architecture
GCN 1.0
GCN 4.0
Foundry
TSMC
GlobalFoundries
Process Size
28 nm
14 nm
Transistors
4.313 billion
5.7 billion
Die Size
352 mm²
232 mm²
Board Design
TDP
274W
150W
Suggested PSU
600 W
450 W
Outputs
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.21x SDI
No outputs
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
1x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
2.1
Vulkan
1.2
1.2
Shader Model
5.1
6.4
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.