AMD FirePro W7100 vs AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

VS

AMD FirePro W7100

AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM FirePro W7100 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W7100 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (150W vs 250W)

AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W7100

3.297 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970 OEM +14%

3.789 TFLOPS

FirePro W7100

VS

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

Graphics Card

Aug 2014

Release Date

Jan 2013

FirePro

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

160.0GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

32

-

1792

Shading Units

2048

112

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.44 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

103.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

3.297 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.297 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

206.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

947.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

250W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

4x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Tonga

GPU Name

Tahiti

Tonga PRO GL

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

GCN 3.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

366 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.3

Shader Model

5.1

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