AMD Radeon Sky 500 vs AMD FirePro W9000

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon Sky 500 and 6GB VRAM FirePro W9000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Sky 500 's Advantages

Released 9 months late

Lower TDP (150W vs 274W)

AMD FirePro W9000 's Advantages

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Sky 500

2.432 TFLOPS

FirePro W9000 +64%

3.994 TFLOPS

Radeon Sky 500

VS

FirePro W9000

Graphics Card

Mar 2013

Release Date

Jun 2012

Radeon Sky

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

20

Compute Units

32

1280

Shading Units

2048

80

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

30.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.20 GPixel/s

76.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

124.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.432 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.994 TFLOPS

152.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

998.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

Tahiti

Pitcairn XT GL (215-0828073)

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT GL

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

274W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-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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