AMD FirePro S4000X vs AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

VS

AMD FirePro S4000X

AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro S4000X and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro S4000X 's Advantages

Released 3 years late

Boost Clock775MHz

Lower TDP (45W vs 75W)

AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

320 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro S4000X

0.992 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition +31%

1.306 TFLOPS

FirePro S4000X

VS

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Aug 2014

Release Date

Aug 2011

FirePro Mobile

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

725 MHz

Base Clock

-

775 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1125 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

72.00GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

12

-

640

Shading Units

960

40

TMUs

48

16

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.76 GPixel/s

31.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.64 GTexel/s

-

992.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1306 GFLOPS

62.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

45W

TDP

75W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Venus

GPU Name

Blackcomb

Venus XT

GPU Variant

Blackcomb XT (216-0811000)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

212 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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