AMD FirePro S9300 X2 vs AMD Radeon R9 290X2

Comparative analysis of AMD FirePro S9300 X2 and AMD Radeon R9 290X2 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD FirePro S9300 X2

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 9 month(s) later
  • Around 2% higher texture fill rate: 2x 217.6 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 2x 176.0 GTexel / s billion / sec
  • Around 45% higher pipelines: 2x 4096 vs 2x 2816
  • Around 24% better floating-point performance: 2x 6,963 gflops vs 2x 5,632 gflops
  • Around 93% lower typical power consumption: 300 Watt vs 580 Watt
Launch date 31 March 2016 vs 24 June 2014
Texture fill rate 2x 217.6 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 2x 176.0 GTexel / s billion / sec
Pipelines 2x 4096 vs 2x 2816
Floating-point performance 2x 6,963 gflops vs 2x 5,632 gflops
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 300 Watt vs 580 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 290X2

  • Around 18% higher core clock speed: 1000 MHz vs 850 MHz
  • 5.4x more memory clock speed: 5400 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Core clock speed 1000 MHz vs 850 MHz
Memory clock speed 5400 MHz vs 1000 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD FirePro S9300 X2
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 290X2

Name AMD FirePro S9300 X2 AMD Radeon R9 290X2
Geekbench - OpenCL 27971
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 19.441

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD FirePro S9300 X2 AMD Radeon R9 290X2

Essentials

Architecture GCN 3.0 GCN 2.0
Code name Capsaicin Hawaii
Launch date 31 March 2016 24 June 2014
Launch price (MSRP) $5,999 $1,399
Place in performance rating 841 282
Type Workstation Desktop

Technical info

Core clock speed 850 MHz 1000 MHz
Floating-point performance 2x 6,963 gflops 2x 5,632 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 2x 4096 2x 2816
Texture fill rate 2x 217.6 GTexel / s billion / sec 2x 176.0 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 300 Watt 580 Watt
Transistor count 8,900 million 6,200 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Length 267 mm
Supplementary power connectors 2x 8-pin 4x 8-pin

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_0) 12.0 (12_0)
OpenGL 4.5 4.6

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2x 4 GB 2x 4 GB
Memory bandwidth 2x 512.0 GB / s 2x 345.6 GB / s
Memory bus width 2x 4096 Bit 2x 512 Bit
Memory clock speed 1000 MHz 5400 MHz
Memory type HBM GDDR5