AMD FireStream 9350 vs AMD Radeon HD 7970

VS

AMD FireStream 9350

AMD Radeon HD 7970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireStream 9350 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FireStream 9350 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 250W)

AMD Radeon HD 7970 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

608 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FireStream 9350

2.016 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 +87%

3.789 TFLOPS

FireStream 9350

VS

Radeon HD 7970

Graphics Card

Jun 2010

Release Date

Dec 2011

FireStream

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

18

Compute Units

32

-

1440

Shading Units

2048

72

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

32

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

22.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

50.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

-

2.016 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

403.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

947.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

250W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DisplayPort 1.1

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

Cypress

GPU Name

Tahiti

Cypress PRO GL

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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