Radeon Sky 700 vs FirePro S9000

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking383not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.98no data
Power efficiency4.05no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code nameTahitiTahiti
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date24 August 2012 (12 years ago)27 March 2013 (11 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$2,499 no data

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 cores17921792
Core clock speed900 MHz900 MHz
Number of transistors4,313 million4,313 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)350 Watt225 Watt
Texture fill rate100.8100.8
Floating-point processing power3.226 TFLOPS3.226 TFLOPS
ROPs3232
TMUs112112

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).

Bus supportPCIe 3.0PCIe 3.0
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Length267 mm267 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Form factorfull height / full lengthfull height / full length
Supplementary power connectors1x 8-pin1x 8-pin

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 typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount6 GB6 GB
Memory bus width384 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed1375 MHz1375 MHz
Memory bandwidth264 GB/s176 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 DisplayPort1x DisplayPort
DisplayPort count11
Dual-link DVI support++

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)12 (11_1)
Shader Model5.15.1
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan1.2.1311.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 24 August 2012 27 March 2013
Power consumption (TDP) 350 Watt 225 Watt

Sky 700 has an age advantage of 7 months, and 55.6% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between FirePro S9000 and Radeon Sky 700. We've got no test results to judge.


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