AMD FirePro S10000 vs AMD Radeon HD 6970

VS

AMD FirePro S10000

AMD Radeon HD 6970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM FirePro S10000 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro S10000 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock950MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6970 's Advantages

Lower TDP (250W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro S10000 +25%

3.405 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970

2.703 TFLOPS

FirePro S10000

VS

Radeon HD 6970

Graphics Card

Nov 2012

Release Date

Dec 2010

FirePro

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

825 MHz

Base Clock

-

950 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

24

-

1792

Shading Units

1536

112

TMUs

96

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

30.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.16 GPixel/s

106.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

84.48 GTexel/s

-

3.405 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.703 TFLOPS

851.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

675.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

375W

TDP

250W

750 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x 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

Cayman

Zaphod

GPU Variant

Cayman XT (215-0807007)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 3

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

2.64 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

389 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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