FirePro W6150M vs FirePro S9100

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated582
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 2.0 (2013−2017)GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code nameHawaiiSaturn
Market segmentWorkstationMobile workstation
Release date2 October 2014 (10 years ago)12 November 2015 (9 years ago)

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 cores2560768
Core clock speed824 MHz1075 MHz
Number of transistors6,200 million2,080 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)750 Wattno data
Texture fill rate131.851.60
Floating-point processing power4.219 TFLOPS1.651 TFLOPS
ROPs6416
TMUs16048

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 3.0no data
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16MXM-B (3.0)
Length267 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Form factorfull height / full lengthno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pinNone

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 amount12 GB4 GB
Memory bus width512 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1250 MHz1375 MHz
Memory bandwidth320 GB/s88 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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)12 (12_0)
Shader Model6.36.3
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.02.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 2 October 2014 12 November 2015
Maximum RAM amount 12 GB 4 GB

FirePro S9100 has a 200% higher maximum VRAM amount.

W6150M, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 year.

We couldn't decide between FirePro S9100 and FirePro W6150M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that FirePro S9100 is a workstation card while FirePro W6150M is a mobile workstation one.


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