AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition vs AMD FirePro S7150 x2

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AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition AMD FirePro S7150 x2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition and 8GB VRAM FirePro S7150 x2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (175W vs 265W)

AMD FirePro S7150 x2 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 1 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

192 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

2.72 TFLOPS

FirePro S7150 x2 +21%

3.297 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

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FirePro S7150 x2

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Feb 2016

Northern Islands

Generation

FirePro Server

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

20

Compute Units

28

1600

Shading Units

1792

80

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.44 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

103.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

3.297 TFLOPS

2.720 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.297 TFLOPS

544.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

206.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

Tonga

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GPU Variant

Cloudy Tau

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

5 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

366 mm²

Board Design

175W

TDP

265W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

No outputs

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2.170

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.5

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