AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 vs AMD FirePro W9000

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 56 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 Vega 56 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1471MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (409.6GB/s vs 264.0GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (210W vs 274W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX Vega 56 +163%

10.54 TFLOPS

FirePro W9000

3.994 TFLOPS

Radeon RX Vega 56

VS

FirePro W9000

Graphics Card

Aug 2017

Release Date

Jun 2012

Vega

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1156 MHz

Base Clock

-

1471 MHz

Boost Clock

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

6GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

2048bit

Memory Bus

384bit

409.6GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

56

Compute Units

32

3584

Shading Units

2048

224

TMUs

128

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

94.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.20 GPixel/s

329.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

124.8 GTexel/s

21.09 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

10.54 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.994 TFLOPS

659.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

998.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

Tahiti

Vega 10 XL (215-0894216)

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT GL

GCN 5.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

495 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

210W

TDP

274W

550 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

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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