AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2 vs AMD FirePro S10000

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2

AMD FirePro S10000

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 X2 and 3GB VRAM FirePro S10000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (300W vs 375W)

AMD FirePro S10000 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock950MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

672 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6870 X2

2.016 TFLOPS

FirePro S10000 +68%

3.405 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870 X2

VS

FirePro S10000

Graphics Card

Jul 2011

Release Date

Nov 2012

Northern Islands

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

825 MHz

-

Boost Clock

950 MHz

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/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

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

30.40 GPixel/s

50.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

106.4 GTexel/s

-

2.016 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.405 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

851.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

300W

TDP

375W

700 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

-

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

Tahiti

Barts XT (215-0798000)

GPU Variant

Zaphod

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

255 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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