ATI FirePro V9800 vs AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT

VS

ATI FirePro V9800

AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM FirePro V9800 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870 XT 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

AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock975MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 147.2GB/s)

Lower TDP (185W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro V9800

2.72 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870 XT +10%

2.995 TFLOPS

FirePro V9800

VS

Radeon HD 7870 XT

Graphics Card

Sep 2010

Release Date

Nov 2012

FirePro

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

925 MHz

-

Boost Clock

975 MHz

1150 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

147.2GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

24

-

1600

Shading Units

1536

80

TMUs

96

32

ROPs

32

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.20 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

93.60 GTexel/s

-

2.720 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.995 TFLOPS

544.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

748.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

185W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1 1x S-Video

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

Tahiti

Cypress XT GL

GPU Variant

Tahiti LE (215-0821122)

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

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

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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