FirePro S9300 X2: specs and benchmarks
Summary
AMD started FirePro S9300 X2 sales 31 March 2016 at a recommended price of $5,999 . This is a GCN 3.0 architecture desktop card based on 28 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 4 GB of HBM memory clocked at 1 GHz are supplied, and together with 4096 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 512.0 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is dual-slot card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 267 mm. Two 8-pin power connectors are required, and power consumption is at 300 Watt.
General info
Some basic facts about FirePro S9300 X2: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in performance ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | GCN 3.0 (2014−2017) | |
| GPU code name | Capsaicin | |
| Market segment | Workstation | |
| Release date | 31 March 2016 (8 years ago) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $5,999 | |
| Current price | $5651 (0.9x MSRP) | of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB) |
Technical specs
FirePro S9300 X2's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of FirePro S9300 X2's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 4096 | of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
| Core clock speed | 850 MHz | of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
| Number of transistors | 8,900 million | of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1070 SLI Mobile) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 28 nm | of 4 (Radeon 780M) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 300 Watt | of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 217.6 | of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB) |
| Floating-point performance | 2x 6,963 gflops | of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo) |
Size and compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of FirePro S9300 X2 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).
| Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | |
| Length | 267 mm | |
| Width | 2-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | 2x 8-pin |
Memory
Parameters of memory installed on FirePro S9300 X2: 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 type | HBM | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 4 GB | of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Memory bus width | 4096 Bit | of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 1000 MHz | of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER) |
| Memory bandwidth | 512.0 GB/s | of 3276 (Aldebaran) |
Video outputs and ports
Types and number of video connectors present on FirePro S9300 X2. 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 Connectors | No outputs |
API support
APIs supported by FirePro S9300 X2, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12 (12_0) | |
| Shader Model | 6.0 | |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | |
| OpenCL | 2.0 | |
| Vulkan | 1.2.131 |
NVIDIA equivalent
According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to FirePro S9300 X2 is Quadro M6000 24 GB.
Similar GPUs
Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.
Recommended processors
These processors are most commonly used with FirePro S9300 X2 according to our statistics.
