AMD FirePro S9100 vs ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

VS

AMD FirePro S9100

ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM FirePro S9100 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro S9100 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (12GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 108.8GB/s)

1760 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 225W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro S9100 +251%

4.219 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

1.2 TFLOPS

FirePro S9100

VS

Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Oct 2014

Release Date

Jan 2009

FirePro

Generation

Radeon R700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

850 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

108.8GB/s

Render Config

40

Compute Units

10

-

2560

Shading Units

800

160

TMUs

40

64

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

52.74 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.00 GPixel/s

131.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

30.00 GTexel/s

-

4.219 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1200 GFLOPS

2.109 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

240.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

225W

TDP

150W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.0

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

RV770

Hawaii GL40

GPU Variant

RV770 XT Mac (215-0669080)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

0.956 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

256 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.3

Shader Model

4.1

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