ATI FirePro V9800 vs AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2

VS

ATI FirePro V9800

AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM FirePro V9800 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI FirePro V9800 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

64 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (250W vs 375W)

AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 147.2GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro V9800

2.72 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970 X2

2.703 TFLOPS

FirePro V9800

VS

Radeon HD 6970 X2

Graphics Card

Sep 2010

Release Date

Unknown

FirePro

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1150 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

147.2GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

24

-

1600

Shading Units

1536

80

TMUs

96

32

ROPs

32

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.16 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

84.48 GTexel/s

-

2.720 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.703 TFLOPS

544.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

250W

TDP

375W

600 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1 1x S-Video

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

3x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

Antilles

Cypress XT GL

GPU Variant

Antilles XT (215-0807027)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

TeraScale 3

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

2.64 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

389 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.4

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.0

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