AMD Radeon RX 480 vs AMD FirePro W9000

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 480 and 6GB VRAM FirePro W9000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 480 's Advantages

Released 4 years late

Boost Clock1266MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

256 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 274W)

AMD FirePro W9000 's Advantages

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

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 480 +46%

5.834 TFLOPS

FirePro W9000

3.994 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 480

VS

FirePro W9000

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

Jun 2012

Arctic Islands

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1120 MHz

Base Clock

-

1266 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

36

Compute Units

32

2304

Shading Units

2048

144

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

40.51 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.20 GPixel/s

182.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

124.8 GTexel/s

5.834 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.834 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.994 TFLOPS

364.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

998.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

Tahiti

Polaris 10 XT (215-0876184)

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT GL

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

274W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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