A10G vs FirePro S9050

Place in the ranking	446	182
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	4.00	16.66
Architecture	GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)	Ampere (2020−2025)
GPU code name	Tahiti	GA102
Market segment	Workstation	Workstation
Release date	7 August 2014 (11 years ago)	12 April 2021 (4 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 cores	1792	9216
Core clock speed	900 MHz	1320 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	1710 MHz
Number of transistors	4,313 million	28,300 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	225 Watt	150 Watt
Texture fill rate	100.8	492.5
Floating-point processing power	3.226 TFLOPS	31.52 TFLOPS
ROPs	32	96
TMUs	112	288
Tensor Cores	no data	288
Ray Tracing Cores	no data	72
L1 Cache	448 KB	9 MB
L2 Cache	768 KB	6 MB

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 support	PCIe 3.0	no data
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x16
Length	254 mm	267 mm
Width	2-slot	1-slot
Form factor	full height / full length	no data
Supplementary power connectors	1x 8-pin	8-pin EPS

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 type	GDDR5	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount	12 GB	12 GB
Memory bus width	384 Bit	384 Bit
Memory clock speed	1375 MHz	1563 MHz
Memory bandwidth	264 GB/s	600.2 GB/s
Resizable BAR	-	+

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display Connectors

1x DisplayPort

No outputs

API and SDK support

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

DirectX	12 (11_1)	12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model	5.1	6.6
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	3.0
Vulkan	1.2.131	1.2
CUDA	-	8.6
DLSS	-	+

Synthetic benchmarks

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score.

FirePro S9050 11.57

A10G 32.10
+177%

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.

FirePro S9050 4901
Samples: 2

A10G 13598
+177%

Samples: 6

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	11.57	32.10
Recency	7 August 2014	12 April 2021
Chip lithography	28 nm	8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	225 Watt	150 Watt

A10G has a 177.4% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 6 years, a 250% more advanced lithography process, and 50% lower power consumption.

The A10G is our recommended choice as it beats the FirePro S9050 in performance tests.