AMD Radeon HD 7950 Boost vs AMD FirePro W9000

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 7950 Boost and AMD FirePro W9000 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: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7950 Boost

  • Around 75% lower typical power consumption: 200 Watt vs 350 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 200 Watt vs 350 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD FirePro W9000

  • Around 15% higher core clock speed: 975 MHz vs 850 MHz
  • Around 20% higher texture fill rate: 124.8 GTexel / s vs 103.6 GTexel / s
  • Around 14% higher pipelines: 2048 vs 1792
  • Around 20% better floating-point performance: 3,994 gflops vs 3,315 gflops
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 6 GB vs 3 GB
  • Around 10% higher memory clock speed: 5500 MHz vs 5000 MHz
Core clock speed 975 MHz vs 850 MHz
Texture fill rate 124.8 GTexel / s vs 103.6 GTexel / s
Pipelines 2048 vs 1792
Floating-point performance 3,994 gflops vs 3,315 gflops
Maximum memory size 6 GB vs 3 GB
Memory clock speed 5500 MHz vs 5000 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 7950 Boost
GPU 2: AMD FirePro W9000

Name AMD Radeon HD 7950 Boost AMD FirePro W9000
PassMark - G3D Mark 6138
PassMark - G2D Mark 720
Geekbench - OpenCL 31775
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 84.462
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1734.394
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 8.988
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 86.984
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 460.234

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Boost AMD FirePro W9000

Essentials

Architecture GCN 1.0 GCN 1.0
Code name Tahiti Tahiti
Launch date 22 June 2012 14 June 2012
Launch price (MSRP) $449 $3,999
Place in performance rating not rated 348
Type Desktop Workstation

Technical info

Boost clock speed 925 MHz
Core clock speed 850 MHz 975 MHz
Floating-point performance 3,315 gflops 3,994 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 1792 2048
Texture fill rate 103.6 GTexel / s 124.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 200 Watt 350 Watt
Transistor count 4,313 million 4,313 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort 6x mini-DisplayPort, 1x SDI
Dual-link DVI support
StereoOutput3D

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Length 274 mm 279 mm
Supplementary power connectors 2x 6-pin 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Bus support PCIe 3.0
Form factor Full Height / Full Length

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_1) 12.0 (11_1)
OpenGL 4.5 4.5

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 3 GB 6 GB
Memory bandwidth 240.0 GB / s 264 GB / s
Memory bus width 384 Bit 384 Bit
Memory clock speed 5000 MHz 5500 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5

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