FirePro S10000: specs and benchmarks

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Aggregate performance score

FirePro S10000 provides acceptable gaming and benchmark performance at 12.36% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 4090.

Summary

AMD started FirePro S10000 sales 12 November 2012 at a recommended price of $3,599 . This is a GCN 1.0 architecture desktop card based on 28 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 6 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 1.25 GHz are supplied, and together with 384 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 480 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 305 mm. Two 8-pin power connectors are required, and power consumption is at 750 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about FirePro S10000: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking399
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.63
Power efficiency2.29of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code nameTahiti
Market segmentWorkstation
Release date12 November 2012 (12 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$3,599 of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Detailed specifications

FirePro S10000's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of FirePro S10000's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores4096of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090)
Core clock speed825 MHzof 2610 MHz (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Boost clock speed950 MHzof 3599 MHz (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Number of transistors4,313 millionof 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology28 nmof 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)750 Wattof 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate106.4of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Floating-point processing power3.405 TFLOPSof 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090)
ROPs32of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX)
TMUs112of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of FirePro S10000 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 supportPCIe 3.0
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16
Length305 mm
Width2-slot
Form factorfull height / full length
Supplementary power connectors2x 8-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on FirePro S10000: 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 typeGDDR5
Maximum RAM amount6 GBof 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width384 Bitof 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed1250 MHzof 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth480 GB/sof 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on FirePro S10000. 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 Connectors1x DVI, 4x mini-DisplayPort
Dual-link DVI support+

API compatibility

APIs supported by FirePro S10000, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX12 (11_1)
Shader Model5.1
OpenGL4.6
OpenCL1.2
Vulkan1.2.131

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of FirePro S10000. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

S10000 12.36

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

S10000 4768

GeekBench 5 OpenCL

Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses OpenCL API by Khronos Group.

S10000 30631

GeekBench 5 Vulkan

Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses Vulkan API by AMD & Khronos Group.

S10000 34145

Gaming performance

Let's see how good FirePro S10000 is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Closest competitors

FirePro S10000's performance relative to its closest rivals among server graphics cards.


FirePro S9000 106.07
FirePro S9050 102.75
FirePro S10000 100
Tesla K40c 94.26

NVIDIA equivalent

According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to FirePro S10000 is Tesla K40c, which is slower by 6% and lower by 10 positions in our ranking.

Here are some closest NVIDIA rivals to FirePro S10000:

Quadro K5200 127.99
Tesla K80 122.73
GRID M60-2Q 109.14
FirePro S10000 100
Tesla K40c 94.26
Tesla K20m 92.96
RTX A400 91.18

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Community ratings

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