AMD FirePro W9000 vs AMD Radeon RX 580

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM FirePro W9000 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W9000 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

AMD Radeon RX 580 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1340MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

256 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (185W vs 274W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W9000

3.994 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580 +54%

6.175 TFLOPS

FirePro W9000

VS

Radeon RX 580

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Apr 2017

FirePro

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1257 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1340 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

32

Compute Units

36

2048

Shading Units

2304

128

TMUs

144

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

31.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

42.88 GPixel/s

124.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

193.0 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

6.175 TFLOPS

3.994 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.175 TFLOPS

998.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

385.9 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Polaris 20

Tahiti XT GL

GPU Variant

Polaris 20 XTX (215-0910038)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Board Design

274W

TDP

185W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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