AMD FirePro S10000 Passive 12GB vs AMD Radeon HD 7970

VS

AMD FirePro S10000 Passive 12GB

AMD Radeon HD 7970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM FirePro S10000 Passive 12GB and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro S10000 Passive 12GB 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock950MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 3GB)

AMD Radeon HD 7970 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (250W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro S10000 Passive 12GB

3.405 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 +11%

3.789 TFLOPS

FirePro S10000 Passive 12GB

VS

Radeon HD 7970

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Dec 2011

FirePro

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

825 MHz

Base Clock

-

950 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

384bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

32

-

1792

Shading Units

2048

112

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

30.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

106.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

-

3.405 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

851.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

947.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

375W

TDP

250W

750 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

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

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Tahiti

Orthrus

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

352 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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