AMD FirePro W2100 vs AMD Radeon HD 6970

VS

AMD FirePro W2100

AMD Radeon HD 6970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro W2100 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W2100 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock680MHz

Lower TDP (26W vs 250W)

AMD Radeon HD 6970 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

1216 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W2100

0.435 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970 +521%

2.703 TFLOPS

FirePro W2100

VS

Radeon HD 6970

Graphics Card

Aug 2014

Release Date

Dec 2010

FirePro

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

630 MHz

Base Clock

-

680 MHz

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/s

Render Config

5

Compute Units

24

-

320

Shading Units

1536

20

TMUs

96

8

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

5.440 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.16 GPixel/s

13.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

84.48 GTexel/s

-

435.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.703 TFLOPS

27.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

675.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

26W

TDP

250W

200 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

2x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Oland

GPU Name

Cayman

-

GPU Variant

Cayman XT (215-0807007)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 3

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.95 billion

Transistors

2.64 billion

77 mm²

Die Size

389 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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