Radeon HD 4870 vs FirePro W7100
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 and 8GB VRAM FirePro W7100 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
FirePro W7100 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 2 months late
More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)
992 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 4870
1200
FirePro W7100
+174%
3297
Graphics Card
Jun 2008
Release Date
Aug 2014
Radeon R700
Generation
FirePro
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
900 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
115.2GB/s
Bandwidth
160.0GB/s
Render Config
10
Compute Units
28
800
Shading Units
1792
40
TMUs
112
16
ROPs
32
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
256 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
12.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
29.44 GPixel/s
30.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
103.0 GTexel/s
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FP16 (half)
3.297 TFLOPS
1200 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.297 TFLOPS
240.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
206.1 GFLOPS
Board Design
150W
TDP
150W
450 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.2
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
RV770
GPU Name
Tonga
RV770 XT
(215-0669049)
GPU Variant
Tonga PRO GL
TeraScale
Architecture
GCN 3.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.956 billion
Transistors
5 billion
256 mm²
Die Size
366 mm²
Graphics Features
10.1 (10_1)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
2.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
4.1
Shader Model
6.3
