AMD FirePro RG220A vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

VS

AMD FirePro RG220A

AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM FirePro RG220A and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro RG220A 's Advantages

Lower TDP (35W vs 500W)

AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)

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

1968 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro RG220A

0.08 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 X2 +4636%

3.789 TFLOPS

FirePro RG220A

VS

Radeon HD 7970 X2

Graphics Card

May 2010

Release Date

Aug 2012

FirePro Remote

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

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

1

Compute Units

32

-

80

Shading Units

2048

8

TMUs

128

4

ROPs

32

-

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

-

80.00 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

947.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

35W

TDP

500W

200 W

Suggested PSU

900 W

1x DVI

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

3x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

M93

GPU Name

New Zealand

-

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

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

-

4.1

Shader Model

5.1

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