Review: Sapphire FirePro W9100

by David Ross on 27 October 2015, 12:00

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Testing Methodology

Sapphire FirePro W9100


GPU Comparisons

Graphics Card GPU Cores Base Clock
(MHz)
Memory Size
(MB)
Memory Clock
(MHz)
Memory Bus
(bits)
Graphics Driver
Sapphire FirePro W9100 2,816 930 16,384 5,000 512 13.350.1012.0
Sapphire FirePro W9000 2,048 975 6,144 5,400 384 13.350.1012.0
Nvidia Quadro M6000 3,072 988 12,288 6,612 384 10.18.13.5330
Nvidia Quadro K5200 2,304 650 8,192 6,000 256 10.18.13.5330
Nvidia Quadro K5000 1,536 706 4,096 5,400 256 10.18.13.5330

HEXUS Workstation Graphics Test Bench

Hardware Components
Processor 2x Intel Xeon E5 2660 v3
CPU Cooler Dynatron Reference
Motherboard Supermicro X10-DAL-i
Memory 32GB Crucial DDR4 2,133 Registered
Power Supply Supermicro PWS-903-PQ 900W
Primary Storage Device Samsung 850 Pro 512GB
Chassis Supermicro S5
Monitor Philips Brilliance 4K Ultra HD LED (288P6LJEB/00)
Operating system Windows 8.1 Pro (64-bit)

Benchmark Suite

Synthetic Benchmarks
3DMark Fire Strike test
LuxMark v3.0 of the OpenCL test
SiSoft Sandra Used to derive matrix multiply, FFT, financial pricing, cryptography and shading performance
Professional Benchmarks
SPECviewperf 12.0.2 Full system test using professional applications
General Benchmarks
Power Consumption To emulate real-world usage scenarios, we record system-wide mains power draw both when idle and while running SPECviewperf Maya
Temperature To emulate real-world usage scenarios, we record GPU core temperature both when idle and while running SPECviewperf Maya.
Noise A PCE-318 meter is used to record noise levels when idle and while running SPECviewperf Maya.