FirePro S9100: specs and benchmarks
Summary
AMD started FirePro S9100 sales 2 October 2014. This is a GCN 2.0 architecture desktop card based on 28 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 12 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 1.25 GHz are supplied, and together with 512 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 320 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a dual-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 267 mm. One 6-pin and one 8-pin connectors are required, and power consumption is at 750 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about FirePro S9100: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | GCN 2.0 (2013−2017) | |
| GPU code name | Hawaii | |
| Market segment | Workstation | |
| Release date | 2 October 2014 (10 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
FirePro S9100's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of FirePro S9100's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 2560 | of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| Core clock speed | 824 MHz | of 2670 MHz (Arc B580) |
| Number of transistors | 6,200 million | of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 28 nm | of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 750 Watt | of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 131.8 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Floating-point processing power | 4.219 TFLOPS | of 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| ROPs | 64 | of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX) |
| TMUs | 160 | of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of FirePro S9100 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Bus support | PCIe 3.0 | |
| Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | |
| Length | 267 mm | |
| Width | 2-slot | |
| Form factor | full height / full length | |
| Supplementary power connectors | 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on FirePro S9100: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | GDDR5 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 12 GB | of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 512 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 1250 MHz | of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 320 GB/s | of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on FirePro S9100. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | No outputs |
API compatibility
APIs supported by FirePro S9100, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12 (12_0) | |
| Shader Model | 6.3 | |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | |
| OpenCL | 2.0 | |
| Vulkan | 1.2.131 |
NVIDIA equivalent
According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to FirePro S9100 is Quadro M5000.
Similar GPUs
Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.
Recommended processors
These processors are most commonly used with FirePro S9100 according to our statistics.
