AMD Radeon HD 6870 vs AMD FirePro S7150 x2

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6870

AMD FirePro S7150 x2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 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 's Advantages

Lower TDP (151W vs 265W)

AMD FirePro S7150 x2 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

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

672 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6870

2.016 TFLOPS

FirePro S7150 x2 +63%

3.297 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870

VS

FirePro S7150 x2

Graphics Card

Oct 2010

Release Date

Feb 2016

Northern Islands

Generation

FirePro Server

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

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

28

-

1120

Shading Units

1792

56

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

32

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.44 GPixel/s

50.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

103.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

3.297 TFLOPS

2.016 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.297 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

206.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

151W

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 Processor

Barts

GPU Name

Tonga

Barts XT (215-0798000)

GPU Variant

Cloudy Tau

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

5 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

366 mm²

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

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.5

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