AMD FirePro W8100 vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

VS

AMD FirePro W8100

AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM FirePro W8100 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 W8100 's Advantages

Released 2 years late

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (220W vs 300W)

AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition 's Advantages

Boost Clock1050MHz

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W8100

4.219 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition +1%

4.301 TFLOPS

FirePro W8100

VS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

Graphics Card

Jun 2014

Release Date

Jun 2012

FirePro

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1000 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1050 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

384bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

40

Compute Units

32

-

2560

Shading Units

2048

160

TMUs

128

64

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

52.74 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.60 GPixel/s

131.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

134.4 GTexel/s

-

4.219 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.301 TFLOPS

2.109 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1075 GFLOPS

Board Design

220W

TDP

300W

550 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

4x DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

Outputs

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

Tahiti

Hawaii GL40

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT2 (215-0821065)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

438 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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