ATI FirePro V8800 vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

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ATI FirePro V8800 AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro V8800 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 V8800 's Advantages

Lower TDP (208W vs 300W)

AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1050MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 147.2GB/s)

448 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro V8800

2.64 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition +62%

4.301 TFLOPS

FirePro V8800

VS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

Graphics Card

Apr 2010

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

1150 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

147.2GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

20

Compute Units

32

1600

Shading Units

2048

80

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

26.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.60 GPixel/s

66.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

134.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.640 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.301 TFLOPS

528.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1075 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

Tahiti

Cypress XT GL

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT2 (215-0821065)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

208W

TDP

300W

550 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

4x DisplayPort 1.1 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

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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