AMD FirePro S9050 vs ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2

VS

AMD FirePro S9050

ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM FirePro S9050 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3870 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro S9050 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (12GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 57.66GB/s)

1472 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (165W vs 225W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro S9050 +510%

3.226 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3870 X2

0.528 TFLOPS

FirePro S9050

VS

Radeon HD 3870 X2

Graphics Card

Aug 2014

Release Date

Jan 2008

FirePro

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

901 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

57.66GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

4

-

1792

Shading Units

320

112

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

13.20 GPixel/s

100.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

13.20 GTexel/s

-

3.226 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

528.0 GFLOPS

806.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

105.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

225W

TDP

165W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

R680

Tahiti PRO GL

GPU Variant

R680 XT (215-0708017)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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