FirePro S7000 vs GeForce 9400 GT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM FirePro S7000 and 1 GB VRAM GeForce 9400 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
FirePro S7000 's Advantages
Released 4 years late
More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 9.600GB/s)
1264 additional rendering cores
GeForce 9400 GT 's Advantages
Lower TDP (50W vs 150W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FirePro S7000
+8286%
2432
GeForce 9400 GT
29
Graphics Card
Aug 2012
Release Date
Aug 2008
FirePro
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1200 MHz
Memory Clock
600 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
1 GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR2
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
153.6GB/s
Bandwidth
9.600GB/s
Render Config
20
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
2
1280
Shading Units
16
80
TMUs
8
32
ROPs
4
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
16 KB
Theoretical Performance
30.40 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
1.836 GPixel/s
76.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
3.672 GTexel/s
2.432 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
29.38 GFLOPS
152.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
150W
TDP
50W
450 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Pitcairn
GPU Name
G86S
Pitcairn XT GL
(215-0828073)
GPU Variant
-
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
80 nm
2.8 billion
Transistors
0.21 billion
212 mm²
Die Size
127 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
1.2
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
5.1
Shader Model
4.0