NVIDIA Titan X Pascal vs AMD FirePro W9000

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Titan X Pascal and AMD FirePro W9000 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, 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, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Titan X Pascal

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 1 month(s) later
  • Around 45% higher core clock speed: 1417 MHz vs 975 MHz
  • 2.7x more texture fill rate: 342.9 GTexel / s vs 124.8 GTexel / s
  • Around 75% higher pipelines: 3584 vs 2048
  • 2.7x better floating-point performance: 10,974 gflops vs 3,994 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 16 nm vs 28 nm
  • Around 40% lower typical power consumption: 250 Watt vs 350 Watt
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 12 GB vs 6 GB
  • Around 82% higher memory clock speed: 10008 MHz vs 5500 MHz
  • 2.1x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 68138 vs 31775
  • Around 96% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 165.792 vs 84.462
  • Around 37% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 2368.267 vs 1734.394
  • Around 98% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 17.829 vs 8.988
  • 2.2x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 992.132 vs 460.234
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 2 August 2016 vs 14 June 2012
Core clock speed 1417 MHz vs 975 MHz
Texture fill rate 342.9 GTexel / s vs 124.8 GTexel / s
Pipelines 3584 vs 2048
Floating-point performance 10,974 gflops vs 3,994 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 16 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 250 Watt vs 350 Watt
Maximum memory size 12 GB vs 6 GB
Memory clock speed 10008 MHz vs 5500 MHz
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 68138 vs 31775
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 165.792 vs 84.462
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 2368.267 vs 1734.394
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 17.829 vs 8.988
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 992.132 vs 460.234

Reasons to consider the AMD FirePro W9000

  • 4.1x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 86.984 vs 21.354
Benchmarks
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 86.984 vs 21.354

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Titan X Pascal
GPU 2: AMD FirePro W9000

Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
68138
31775
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)
GPU 1
GPU 2
165.792
84.462
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2368.267
1734.394
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)
GPU 1
GPU 2
17.829
8.988
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)
GPU 1
GPU 2
21.354
86.984
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)
GPU 1
GPU 2
992.132
460.234
Name NVIDIA Titan X Pascal AMD FirePro W9000
Geekbench - OpenCL 68138 31775
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 165.792 84.462
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 2368.267 1734.394
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 17.829 8.988
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 21.354 86.984
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 992.132 460.234
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 10841
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3696
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3333
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 10841
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3696
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3333
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 9646
PassMark - G3D Mark 6138
PassMark - G2D Mark 720

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA Titan X Pascal AMD FirePro W9000

Essentials

Architecture Pascal GCN 1.0
Code name GP102 Tahiti
Launch date 2 August 2016 14 June 2012
Launch price (MSRP) $1,199 $3,999
Place in performance rating 350 347
Type Desktop Workstation

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1531 MHz
Core clock speed 1417 MHz 975 MHz
Floating-point performance 10,974 gflops 3,994 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 16 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 3584 2048
Texture fill rate 342.9 GTexel / s 124.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 250 Watt 350 Watt
Transistor count 11,800 million 4,313 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort 6x mini-DisplayPort, 1x SDI
Dual-link DVI support
StereoOutput3D

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Length 267 mm 279 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Bus support PCIe 3.0
Form factor Full Height / Full Length

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_1) 12.0 (11_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.5
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 12 GB 6 GB
Memory bandwidth 480.4 GB / s 264 GB / s
Memory bus width 384 Bit 384 Bit
Memory clock speed 10008 MHz 5500 MHz
Memory type GDDR5X GDDR5
Shared memory 0