FirePro S9300 X2 vs FirePro W8000

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking429not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation1.02no data
Power efficiency3.33no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)GCN 3.0 (2014−2019)
GPU code nameTahitiCapsaicin
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date14 June 2012 (12 years ago)31 March 2016 (8 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$1,599 $5,999

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 cores17924096
Core clock speed900 MHz850 MHz
Number of transistors4,313 million8,900 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)225 Watt300 Watt
Texture fill rate100.8217.6
Floating-point processing power3.226 TFLOPS6.963 TFLOPS
ROPs3264
TMUs112256

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 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Length279 mm267 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Form factorfull height / full lengthno data
Supplementary power connectors2x 6-pin2x 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 typeGDDR5HBM
Maximum RAM amount4 GB4 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit4096 Bit
Memory clock speed1375 MHz500 MHz
Memory bandwidth176 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 Connectors4x DisplayPort, 1x SDINo outputs
StereoOutput3D+-
DisplayPort count4no data
Dual-link DVI support+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)12 (12_0)
Shader Model5.16.0
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.22.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 14 June 2012 31 March 2016
Power consumption (TDP) 225 Watt 300 Watt

FirePro W8000 has 33.3% lower power consumption.

S9300 X2, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 3 years.

We couldn't decide between FirePro W8000 and FirePro S9300 X2. We've got no test results to judge.


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