AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition vs AMD FirePro S9150

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

AMD FirePro S9150

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition and 16GB VRAM FirePro S9150 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 235W)

AMD FirePro S9150 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (16GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

1216 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

2.72 TFLOPS

FirePro S9150 +86%

5.069 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

VS

FirePro S9150

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Aug 2014

Northern Islands

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

44

-

1600

Shading Units

2816

80

TMUs

176

32

ROPs

64

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

57.60 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

158.4 GTexel/s

-

2.720 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.069 TFLOPS

544.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

2.534 TFLOPS

Board Design

175W

TDP

235W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 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 Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

Hawaii

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GPU Variant

Hawaii GL44

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.3

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