ATI FirePro V8700 vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

VS

ATI FirePro V8700 AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM FirePro V8700 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI FirePro V8700 's Advantages

Lower TDP (151W vs 300W)

AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1050MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 108.8GB/s)

1248 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro V8700

1.2 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition +258%

4.301 TFLOPS

FirePro V8700

VS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

Graphics Card

Sep 2008

Release Date

Jun 2012

FirePro

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1000 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1050 MHz

850 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

108.8GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

10

Compute Units

32

800

Shading Units

2048

40

TMUs

128

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

12.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.60 GPixel/s

30.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

134.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1200 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.301 TFLOPS

240.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1075 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

RV770

GPU Name

Tahiti

RV770 XT (215-0669049)

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT2 (215-0821065)

TeraScale

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.956 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

256 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

151W

TDP

300W

450 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

1x DVI 2x DisplayPort 1.0 1x S-Video

Outputs

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

4.1

Shader Model

5.1

Related GPU Comparisons

1

ATI FirePro V8700 vs ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition

2

ATI FirePro V8700 vs AMD Radeon R9 370 1024SP

3

ATI FirePro V8700 vs ATI Radeon X1950 GT

4

ATI FirePro V8700 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER

5

ATI FirePro V8700 vs AMD Radeon R5 340X OEM

6

ATI FirePro V8700 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT PCI

7

ATI FirePro V8700 vs AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP

8

ATI FirePro V8700 vs AMD Radeon R5 435 OEM

9

ATI FirePro V8700 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 SE v2

10

ATI FirePro V8700 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER

Related News

1

Surpassing RTX 2050! Intel's Next-Gen Integrated Graphics Benchmark Closely Approaches AMD

2

New Benchmarks for AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 Revealed: Single-Core Parity with R9 7945HX3D, Multi-Core Still Lower

3

X3D Performance Beyond Words! AMD Ryzen 7 9700X May Unlock Power Consumption: From 65W to 120W

4

First Benchmark Leak of Intel Core Ultra 7 268V: Single-Core Performance Soars by 20%, Still Lags Behind AMD

5

NVIDIA Grace CPU Benchmark Results Released, Stunning Performance

6

Minisforum Launches UM890 Pro Mini PC with R9 8945HS and Dual USB4 Ports

7

Does the Apple A18 Neural Engine Boast Superior Performance? Computational Power May Surpass M4 Chip

8

AMD's Commitment to Pioneering Each Generation with Cutting-Edge Process Technology and Continuous Innovation in Design, Packaging, and Assembly

9

NVIDIA to Ramp Up Orders and Add New Suppliers to Meet Explosive Demand for Blackwell Products

10

NVIDIA Informs Brands of Reduced Supply for RTX 40 Series GPUs