AMD FirePro W2100 vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

VS

AMD FirePro W2100

AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro W2100 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

AMD FirePro W2100 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 2 months late

Lower TDP (26W vs 300W)

AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 54% (1050MHz vs 680MHz)

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

1728 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W2100

0.435 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition +888%

4.301 TFLOPS

FirePro W2100

VS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

Graphics Card

Aug 2014

Release Date

Jun 2012

FirePro

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

630 MHz

Base Clock

1000 MHz

680 MHz

Boost Clock

1050 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

3GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

5

Compute Units

32

-

320

Shading Units

2048

20

TMUs

128

8

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

5.440 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.60 GPixel/s

13.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

134.4 GTexel/s

-

435.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.301 TFLOPS

27.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1075 GFLOPS

Board Design

26W

TDP

300W

200 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

2x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Oland

GPU Name

Tahiti

-

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT2 (215-0821065)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.95 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

77 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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