FirePro S7000 vs Radeon HD 3850 X2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM FirePro S7000 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3850 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
FirePro S7000 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 4 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 52.99GB/s)
960 additional rendering cores
Radeon HD 3850 X2 's Advantages
Lower TDP (140W vs 150W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FirePro S7000
+468%
2432
Radeon HD 3850 X2
428
Graphics Card
Aug 2012
Release Date
Apr 2008
FirePro
Generation
Radeon R600
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1200 MHz
Memory Clock
828 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
153.6GB/s
Bandwidth
52.99GB/s
Render Config
20
Compute Units
4
1280
Shading Units
320
80
TMUs
16
32
ROPs
16
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
30.40 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
10.70 GPixel/s
76.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
10.70 GTexel/s
2.432 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
428.2 GFLOPS
152.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
85.63 GFLOPS
Board Design
150W
TDP
140W
450 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
Pitcairn
GPU Name
RV670
Pitcairn XT GL
(215-0828073)
GPU Variant
RV670 PRO
(215-0708003)
GCN 1.0
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
55 nm
2.8 billion
Transistors
0.666 billion
212 mm²
Die Size
192 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
1.2
OpenCL
N/A
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
5.1
Shader Model
4.1
