Product Compare

AMD FirePro W9100 vs AMD Radeon HD 8970M

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Mar 2014 May 2013
Generation FirePro Solar System
Type Desktop Mobile
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock 1250 MHz 1200 MHz
Base Clock 850 MHz
Boost Clock 900 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 16GB 4GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Bus 512bit 256bit
Bandwidth 320.0GB/s 153.6GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 44 20
Shading Units 2816 1280
TMUs 176 80
ROPs 64 32
L1 Cache 16 KB (per CU) 16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache 1024 KB 512 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 59.52 GPixel/s 28.80 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 163.7 GTexel/s 72.00 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 5.238 TFLOPS 2.304 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 2.619 TFLOPS 144.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Hawaii Neptune
GPU Variant Hawaii GL44 Neptune XT(216-0847000)
Architecture GCN 2.0 GCN 1.0
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Process Size 28 nm 28 nm
Transistors 6.2 billion 2.8 billion
Die Size 438 mm² 212 mm²
Board Design
TDP 275W 100W
Suggested PSU 600 W
Outputs 6x mini-DisplayPort 1.21x S-Video No outputs
Power Connectors 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 (12_0) 12 (11_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.0 1.2
Vulkan 1.2 1.2
Shader Model 6.3 5.1