AMD FirePro W9100 vs ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition

VS

AMD FirePro W9100

ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM FirePro W9100 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W9100 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (16GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 72.06GB/s)

2496 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (106W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W9100 +953%

5.238 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition

0.497 TFLOPS

FirePro W9100

VS

Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Jun 2008

FirePro

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1126 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR4

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

72.06GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

4

-

2816

Shading Units

320

176

TMUs

16

64

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

59.52 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.43 GPixel/s

163.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.43 GTexel/s

-

5.238 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

497.3 GFLOPS

2.619 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

99.46 GFLOPS

Board Design

275W

TDP

106W

600 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

RV670

Hawaii GL44

GPU Variant

RV670 XT (215-0708005)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

2.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.3

Shader Model

4.1

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