AMD FirePro W9000 vs AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2

VS

AMD FirePro W9000

AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM FirePro W9000 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W9000 's Advantages

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (274W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W9000 +47%

3.994 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970 X2

2.703 TFLOPS

FirePro W9000

VS

Radeon HD 6970 X2

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Unknown

FirePro

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

24

-

2048

Shading Units

1536

128

TMUs

96

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

31.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.16 GPixel/s

124.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

84.48 GTexel/s

-

3.994 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.703 TFLOPS

998.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

274W

TDP

375W

600 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

3x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Antilles

Tahiti XT GL

GPU Variant

Antilles XT (215-0807027)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 3

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

2.64 billion

352 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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