AMD FirePro W9000 vs AMD Radeon R9 270

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM FirePro W9000 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W9000 's Advantages

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 179.2GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 270 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock925MHz

Lower TDP (150W vs 274W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W9000 +68%

3.994 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270

2.368 TFLOPS

FirePro W9000

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Radeon R9 270

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Nov 2013

FirePro

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

900 MHz

-

Boost Clock

925 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

179.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

32

Compute Units

20

2048

Shading Units

1280

128

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

31.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

124.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

74.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.994 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.368 TFLOPS

998.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

148.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Curacao

Tahiti XT GL

GPU Variant

Curacao PRO (215-0848000)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

274W

TDP

150W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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