FirePro S9300 X2 vs Radeon VII

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking86not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation25.48no data
Power efficiency10.01no data
ArchitectureGCN 5.1 (2018−2022)GCN 3.0 (2014−2019)
GPU code nameVega 20Capsaicin
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date7 February 2019 (5 years ago)31 March 2016 (8 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$699 $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 cores38404096
Core clock speed1400 MHz850 MHz
Boost clock speed1750 MHzno data
Number of transistors13,230 million8,900 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)295 Watt300 Watt
Texture fill rate420.0217.6
Floating-point processing power13.44 TFLOPS6.963 TFLOPS
ROPs6464
TMUs240256

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 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Length280 mm267 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors2x 8-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 typeHBM2HBM
Maximum RAM amount16 GB4 GB
Memory bus width4096 Bit4096 Bit
Memory clock speed1000 MHz500 MHz
Memory bandwidth1024 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 HDMI 2.0b, 3x DisplayPort 1.4aNo outputs
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 (12_0)
Shader Model6.76.0
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.12.0
Vulkan1.31.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 February 2019 31 March 2016
Maximum RAM amount 16 GB 4 GB
Chip lithography 7 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 295 Watt 300 Watt

Radeon VII has an age advantage of 2 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 300% more advanced lithography process, and 1.7% lower power consumption.

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

Be aware that Radeon VII is a desktop card while FirePro S9300 X2 is a workstation one.


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