AMD Radeon Pro Duo vs AMD FirePro S9300 X2

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro Duo and AMD FirePro S9300 X2 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. 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), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro Duo

  • Around 2% higher texture fill rate: 2x 256.0 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 2x 217.6 GTexel / s billion / sec
  • Around 18% better floating-point performance: 2x 8,192 gflops vs 2x 6,963 gflops
  • Around 98% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 55512 vs 27971
Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate 2x 256.0 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 2x 217.6 GTexel / s billion / sec
Floating-point performance 2x 8,192 gflops vs 2x 6,963 gflops
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 55512 vs 27971

Reasons to consider the AMD FirePro S9300 X2

  • Around 17% lower typical power consumption: 300 Watt vs 350 Watt
  • 2x more memory clock speed: 1000 MHz vs 500 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 300 Watt vs 350 Watt
Memory clock speed 1000 MHz vs 500 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro Duo
GPU 2: AMD FirePro S9300 X2

Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
55512
27971
Name AMD Radeon Pro Duo AMD FirePro S9300 X2
PassMark - G3D Mark 8299
PassMark - G2D Mark 787
Geekbench - OpenCL 55512 27971
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 141.474
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 3621.344
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 13.132
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 112.973
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 799.933
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 10141
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3713
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 38251
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 10141
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3713
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 38251
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 0

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon Pro Duo AMD FirePro S9300 X2

Essentials

Architecture GCN 3.0 GCN 3.0
Code name Capsaicin Capsaicin
Design reference
Launch date 26 April 2016 31 March 2016
Launch price (MSRP) $1,499 $5,999
Place in performance rating 192 805
Price now $849
Type Workstation Workstation
Value for money (0-100) 17.05

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1000 MHz
Compute units 128
Floating-point performance 2x 8,192 gflops 2x 6,963 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 2x 4096 2x 4096
Texture fill rate 2x 256.0 GTexel / s billion / sec 2x 217.6 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 350 Watt 300 Watt
Transistor count 8,900 million 8,900 million
Core clock speed 850 MHz

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort No outputs
DisplayPort support
Eyefinity
HDMI
Number of Eyefinity displays 6

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCIe 3.0
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Length 277 mm 267 mm
Supplementary power connectors 3x 8-pin 2x 8-pin

API support

DirectX DirectX® 12 12.0 (12_0)
Mantle
OpenCL 2.0
OpenGL 4.5 4.5
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 2x 4 GB
Memory bandwidth 512 GB / s 2x 512.0 GB / s
Memory bus width 2x 4096 Bit 2x 4096 Bit
Memory clock speed 500 MHz 1000 MHz
Memory type High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) HBM

Technologies

AppAcceleration
CrossFire
Enduro
FreeSync
FRTC
HD3D
LiquidVR
PowerTune
TressFX
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
ZeroCore