AMD Radeon RX 580 (Laptop) vs AMD FirePro S9000

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 580 (Laptop) and AMD FirePro S9000 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: 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, 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 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 580 (Laptop)

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 7 month(s) later
  • Around 40% higher core clock speed: 1257 MHz vs 900 MHz
  • 1914.3x more texture fill rate: 192.96 GTexel/s vs 100.8 GTexel / s
  • Around 29% higher pipelines: 2304 vs 1792
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
  • Around 89% lower typical power consumption: 185 Watt vs 350 Watt
  • Around 33% higher maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 6 GB
  • Around 45% higher memory clock speed: 8000 MHz vs 5500 MHz
Launch date 18 April 2017 vs 24 August 2012
Core clock speed 1257 MHz vs 900 MHz
Texture fill rate 192.96 GTexel/s vs 100.8 GTexel / s
Pipelines 2304 vs 1792
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 185 Watt vs 350 Watt
Maximum memory size 8 GB vs 6 GB
Memory clock speed 8000 MHz vs 5500 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD FirePro S9000

  • 520.3x better floating-point performance: 3,226 gflops vs 6.2 TFLOPs
Floating-point performance 3,226 gflops vs 6.2 TFLOPs

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 580 (Laptop)
GPU 2: AMD FirePro S9000

Name AMD Radeon RX 580 (Laptop) AMD FirePro S9000
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 3510
PassMark - G3D Mark 5059
PassMark - G2D Mark 561
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 9.541
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 275.278
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 1.886
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 30.049
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 91.842
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3707
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3357
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3707
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3357

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon RX 580 (Laptop) AMD FirePro S9000

Essentials

Architecture GCN 4.0 GCN 1.0
Code name Polaris 20 Tahiti
Design Radeon RX 500 Series
GCN generation 4th Gen
Launch date 18 April 2017 24 August 2012
Launch price (MSRP) $301.69 $2,499
Place in performance rating 693 696
Price now $169.99
Type Desktop Workstation
Value for money (0-100) 62.57

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1340 MHz
Compute units 36
Core clock speed 1257 MHz 900 MHz
Floating-point performance 6.2 TFLOPs 3,226 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 2304 1792
Pixel fill rate 42.88 GP/s
Render output units 32
Stream Processors 2304
Texture fill rate 192.96 GTexel/s 100.8 GTexel / s
Texture Units 144
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 185 Watt 350 Watt
Transistor count 5,700 million 4,313 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 1x DisplayPort
VGA
DisplayPort count 1
Dual-link DVI support

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bridgeless CrossFire
Interface MXM-B (3.0) PCIe 3.0 x16
Laptop size large
Recommended system power (PSU) 500 Watt
Bus support PCIe 3.0
Form factor Full Height / Full Length
Length 267 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x 8-pin

API support

DirectX 12 12.0 (11_1)
OpenCL 2.0
OpenGL 4.5 4.5
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 6 GB
Memory bandwidth 256 GB/s 264 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 bit 384 Bit
Memory clock speed 8000 MHz 5500 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Shared memory 0

Technologies

4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
AMD Eyefinity
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
AppAcceleration
CrossFire
FreeSync
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support
LiquidVR
PowerTune
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
VR Ready