Radeon Pro 575X vs FirePro W9000

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	337	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	0.91	no data
Power efficiency	4.01	no data
Architecture	GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)	GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code name	Tahiti	Polaris 20
Market segment	Workstation	Mobile workstation
Release date	14 June 2012 (12 years ago)	18 March 2019 (5 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$3,999	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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	2048	2048
Core clock speed	975 MHz	1096 MHz
Number of transistors	4,313 million	5,700 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	350 Watt	120 Watt
Texture fill rate	124.8	140.3
Floating-point processing power	3.994 TFLOPS	4.489 TFLOPS
ROPs	32	32
TMUs	128	128

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 3.0 x16
Length	279 mm	no data
Width	2-slot	no data
Form factor	full height / full length	no data
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin	None

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	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	6 GB	4 GB
Memory bus width	384 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1375 MHz	1700 MHz
Memory bandwidth	264 GB/s	217.6 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 Connectors	6x mini-DisplayPort, 1x SDI	No outputs
StereoOutput3D	+	-
Dual-link DVI support	+	-

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (11_1)	12 (12_0)
Shader Model	5.1	6.4
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	2.0
Vulkan	1.2.131	1.2.131

Synthetic benchmark performance

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

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Pros & cons summary

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Recency	14 June 2012	18 March 2019
Maximum RAM amount	6 GB	4 GB
Chip lithography	28 nm	14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	350 Watt	120 Watt

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