AMD FirePro S9150 vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM FirePro S9150 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro S9150 's Advantages

Released 2 years late

More VRAM (16GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 264.0GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (235W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro S9150 +33%

5.069 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 X2

3.789 TFLOPS

FirePro S9150

VS

Radeon HD 7970 X2

Graphics Card

Aug 2014

Release Date

Aug 2012

FirePro

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

384bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

44

Compute Units

32

2816

Shading Units

2048

176

TMUs

128

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

57.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

158.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

5.069 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

2.534 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

947.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

New Zealand

Hawaii GL44

GPU Variant

-

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

235W

TDP

500W

550 W

Suggested PSU

900 W

No outputs

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

3x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.3

Shader Model

5.1

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