AMD Radeon Pro Vega II vs AMD FirePro W9100

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro Vega II 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, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro Vega II

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 8 month(s) later
  • Around 69% higher core clock speed: 1574 MHz vs 930 MHz
  • 2689.7x more texture fill rate: 440.3 GTexel/s vs 163.7 GTexel / s
  • Around 45% higher pipelines: 4096 vs 2816
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 28 nm
  • Around 58% lower typical power consumption: 475 Watt vs 750 Watt
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 32 GB vs 16 GB
  • 2.3x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 99542 vs 43046
  • Around 77% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 16149 vs 9143
  • Around 77% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 16149 vs 9143
  • Around 2% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 768 vs 752
  • Around 94% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 15475 vs 7987
Specifications (specs)
Launch date Dec 2019 vs 26 March 2014
Core clock speed 1574 MHz vs 930 MHz
Texture fill rate 440.3 GTexel/s vs 163.7 GTexel / s
Pipelines 4096 vs 2816
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 475 Watt vs 750 Watt
Maximum memory size 32 GB vs 16 GB
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 99542 vs 43046
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 16149 vs 9143
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 16149 vs 9143
PassMark - G2D Mark 768 vs 752
PassMark - G3D Mark 15475 vs 7987

Reasons to consider the AMD FirePro W9100

  • 3.1x more memory clock speed: 5000 MHz vs 1612 MHz
  • 2.7x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 8219 vs 3100
  • 2.7x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 8219 vs 3100
  • 11.4x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 32085 vs 2813
  • 11.4x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 32085 vs 2813
Specifications (specs)
Memory clock speed 5000 MHz vs 1612 MHz
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 8219 vs 3100
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 8219 vs 3100
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 32085 vs 2813
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 32085 vs 2813

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro Vega II
GPU 2: AMD FirePro W9100

Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
99542
43046
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
16149
9143
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
16149
9143
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3100
8219
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3100
8219
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2813
32085
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2813
32085
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
768
752
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
15475
7987
Name AMD Radeon Pro Vega II AMD FirePro W9100
Geekbench - OpenCL 99542 43046
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 16149 9143
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 16149 9143
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3100 8219
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3100 8219
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 2813 32085
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 2813 32085
PassMark - G2D Mark 768 752
PassMark - G3D Mark 15475 7987
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

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon Pro Vega II AMD FirePro W9100

Essentials

Architecture GCN 5.1 GCN 2.0
Code name Vega 20 Hawaii
Launch date Dec 2019 26 March 2014
Place in performance rating 166 190
Type Laptop Workstation

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1720 MHz
Compute units 64
Core clock speed 1574 MHz 930 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm 28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 880.6 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 28.18 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 14.09 TFLOPS
Pipelines 4096 2816
Pixel fill rate 110.1 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 440.3 GTexel/s 163.7 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 475 Watt 750 Watt
Transistor count 13230 million 6,200 million
Floating-point performance 5,238 gflops

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x HDMI, 4x mini-DisplayPort 6x mini-DisplayPort, 1x S-Video
Dual-link DVI support
HD сomponent video output
StereoOutput3D

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU) 850 Watt
Supplementary power connectors None 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Width Dual-slot
Bus support PCIe 3.0
Form factor Full Height / Full Length
Length 275 mm

API support

DirectX 12.1 12.0 (12_0)
OpenCL 2.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Shader Model 6.4
Vulkan

Memory

High bandwidth memory (HBM)
Maximum RAM amount 32 GB 16 GB
Memory bandwidth 825.3 GB/s 320 GB / s
Memory bus width 4096 bit 512 Bit
Memory clock speed 1612 MHz 5000 MHz
Memory type HBM2 GDDR5

Technologies

Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)