AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition vs AMD FirePro S9300 X2

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AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition AMD FirePro S9300 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition and 4GB VRAM FirePro S9300 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (151W vs 300W)

AMD FirePro S9300 X2 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

2656 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

2.088 TFLOPS

FirePro S9300 X2 +282%

7.987 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

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FirePro S9300 X2

Graphics Card

Aug 2012

Release Date

Mar 2016

Northern Islands

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM

256bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

18

Compute Units

64

1440

Shading Units

4096

72

TMUs

256

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

62.40 GPixel/s

52.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

249.6 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.088 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.987 TFLOPS

417.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

499.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

Capsaicin

Cypress PRO (215-0735043)

GPU Variant

Capsaicin XT

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

8.9 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

596 mm²

Board Design

151W

TDP

300W

450 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

No outputs

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.0

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