AMD FirePro D300 vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

VS

AMD FirePro D300

AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro D300 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro D300 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 7 months late

Lower TDP (150W vs 300W)

AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition 's Advantages

Boost Clock1050MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 162.6GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro D300

2.176 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition +97%

4.301 TFLOPS

FirePro D300

VS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

Graphics Card

Jan 2014

Release Date

Jun 2012

FirePro

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1000 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1050 MHz

1270 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

162.6GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

32

-

1280

Shading Units

2048

80

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.60 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

134.4 GTexel/s

-

2.176 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.301 TFLOPS

136.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1075 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

300W

450 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

4x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

-

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

Tahiti

Pitcairn XT GL (215-0828073)

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT2 (215-0821065)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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