AMD FirePro RG220 vs AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

VS

AMD FirePro RG220 AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM FirePro RG220 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro RG220 's Advantages

Lower TDP (35W vs 250W)

AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 8 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

1968 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro RG220

0.08 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970 OEM +4636%

3.789 TFLOPS

FirePro RG220

VS

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

Graphics Card

May 2010

Release Date

Jan 2013

FirePro RG

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

51.20GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

1

Compute Units

32

80

Shading Units

2048

8

TMUs

128

4

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

-

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

2.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

4.000 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

80.00 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

947.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

M93

GPU Name

Tahiti

-

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

TeraScale

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.242 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

73 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

35W

TDP

250W

200 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DMS-59

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

4.1

Shader Model

5.1

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