AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile vs AMD FirePro W9100

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile 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: GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), 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 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 2 month(s) later
  • Around 22% higher core clock speed: 1138 MHz vs 930 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
  • 6.3x lower typical power consumption: 120 Watt vs 750 Watt
  • Around 8% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 8917 vs 8219
  • Around 8% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 8917 vs 8219
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 1 June 2018 vs 26 March 2014
Core clock speed 1138 MHz vs 930 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 120 Watt vs 750 Watt
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 8917 vs 8219
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 8917 vs 8219

Reasons to consider the AMD FirePro W9100

  • 3.1x more memory clock speed: 5000 MHz vs 1600 MHz
Memory clock speed 5000 MHz vs 1600 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile
GPU 2: AMD FirePro W9100

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
8917
8219
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
8917
8219
Name AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile AMD FirePro W9100
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 8917 8219
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 8917 8219
PassMark - G3D Mark 7987
PassMark - G2D Mark 752
Geekbench - OpenCL 43046
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 - T-Rex (Frames) 32085
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 9143
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 32085

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile AMD FirePro W9100

Essentials

Architecture GCN 5.0 GCN 2.0
Code name Vega 10 Hawaii
Launch date 1 June 2018 26 March 2014
Place in performance rating 134 190
Type Desktop Workstation

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1301 MHz
Core clock speed 1138 MHz 930 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 120 Watt 750 Watt
Transistor count 12,500 million 6,200 million
Floating-point performance 5,238 gflops
Pipelines 2816
Texture fill rate 163.7 GTexel / s

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x HDMI, 3x 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
Bus support PCIe 3.0
Form factor Full Height / Full Length
Length 275 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_1) 12.0 (12_0)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6

Memory

Memory clock speed 1600 MHz 5000 MHz
Maximum RAM amount 16 GB
Memory bandwidth 320 GB / s
Memory bus width 512 Bit
Memory type GDDR5