AMD Radeon Pro VII vs AMD FirePro W9100

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro VII and AMD FirePro W9100 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, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, 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).

AMD Radeon Pro VII

AMD FirePro W9100

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro VII

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 1 month(s) later
Around 51% higher core clock speed: 1400 MHz vs 930 MHz
2492.4x more texture fill rate: 408 GTexel/s vs 163.7 GTexel / s
Around 36% higher pipelines: 3840 vs 2816
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 28 nm
3x lower typical power consumption: 250 Watt vs 750 Watt
2.1x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 89655 vs 43046

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	13 May 2020 vs 26 March 2014
Core clock speed	1400 MHz vs 930 MHz
Texture fill rate	408 GTexel/s vs 163.7 GTexel / s
Pipelines	3840 vs 2816
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	250 Watt vs 750 Watt
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	89655 vs 43046

Reasons to consider the AMD FirePro W9100

5x more memory clock speed: 5000 MHz vs 1000 MHz (2 Gbps effective)

Memory clock speed	5000 MHz vs 1000 MHz (2 Gbps effective)

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro VII
GPU 2: AMD FirePro W9100

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

89655

43046

Name	AMD Radeon Pro VII	AMD FirePro W9100
Geekbench - OpenCL	89655	43046
PassMark - G3D Mark		7580
PassMark - G2D Mark		747
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		106.585
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		1878.403
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		9.751
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		82.208
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		511.115
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		9143
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		8219
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		32085
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		9143
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		8219
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		32085

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon Pro VII	AMD FirePro W9100
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 5.1	GCN 2.0
Code name	Vega 20	Hawaii
Launch date	13 May 2020	26 March 2014
Launch price (MSRP)	$1899
Place in performance rating	198	201
Type	Desktop	Workstation
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1700 MHz
Compute units	60
Core clock speed	1400 MHz	930 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	6.528 TFLOPS (1:2)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	26.11 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	13.06 TFLOPS
Pipelines	3840	2816
Pixel fill rate	108.8 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	408 GTexel/s	163.7 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	250 Watt	750 Watt
Transistor count	13230 million	6,200 million
Floating-point performance		5,238 gflops
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	6x mini-DisplayPort	6x mini-DisplayPort, 1x S-Video
Dual-link DVI support
HD сomponent video output
StereoOutput3D
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Dual-slot	Full Height / Full Length
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	305 mm (12 inches)	275 mm
Recommended system power (PSU)	600 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Width	111 mm (4.4 inches)
Bus support		PCIe 3.0
API support
DirectX	12.1	12.0 (12_0)
OpenCL	2.1
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.4
Vulkan
Memory
High bandwidth memory (HBM)
Maximum RAM amount	16 GB	16 GB
Memory bandwidth	1024 GB/s	320 GB / s
Memory bus width	4096 bit	512 Bit
Memory clock speed	1000 MHz (2 Gbps effective)	5000 MHz
Memory type	HBM2	GDDR5