AMD FirePro S9100 vs AMD Radeon HD 6970

VS

AMD FirePro S9100

AMD Radeon HD 6970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM FirePro S9100 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 S9100 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (225W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro S9100 +56%

4.219 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970

2.703 TFLOPS

FirePro S9100

VS

Radeon HD 6970

Graphics Card

Oct 2014

Release Date

Dec 2010

FirePro

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/s

Render Config

40

Compute Units

24

-

2560

Shading Units

1536

160

TMUs

96

64

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

52.74 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.16 GPixel/s

131.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

84.48 GTexel/s

-

4.219 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.703 TFLOPS

2.109 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

675.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

225W

TDP

250W

550 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

No outputs

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

Cayman

Hawaii GL40

GPU Variant

Cayman XT (215-0807007)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 3

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

2.64 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

389 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.0

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.3

Shader Model

5.0

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