Radeon Pro W6800X vs FirePro S10000 Passive 12GB

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated102
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data14.24
Power efficiencyno data13.84
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)RDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)
GPU code nameTahitiNavi 21
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date1 March 2014 (10 years ago)3 August 2021 (3 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$3,599 $2,799

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores17923840
Core clock speed825 MHz1800 MHz
Boost clock speed950 MHz2087 MHz
Number of transistors4,313 million26,800 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)375 Watt200 Watt
Texture fill rate106.4500.9
Floating-point processing power3.405 TFLOPS16.03 TFLOPS
ROPs3296
TMUs112240
Ray Tracing Coresno data60

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16Apple MPX
Length305 mm267 mm
Width2-slotQuad-slot
Supplementary power connectors2x 8-pinApple MPX

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount6 GB32 GB
Memory bus width384 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1250 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth240.0 GB/s512.0 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x DVI, 1x mini-DisplayPort1x HDMI 2.1, 4x Thunderbolt
HDMI-+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (11_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.16.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.22.1
Vulkan1.2.1311.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 March 2014 3 August 2021
Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 32 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 375 Watt 200 Watt

Pro W6800X has an age advantage of 7 years, a 433.3% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 300% more advanced lithography process, and 87.5% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between FirePro S10000 Passive 12GB and Radeon Pro W6800X. We've got no test results to judge.


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