AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2 vs ATI FirePro V9800

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 X2 and 4GB VRAM FirePro V9800 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2 's Advantages

Released 10 months late

ATI FirePro V9800 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (147.2GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

480 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (250W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6870 X2

2.016 TFLOPS

FirePro V9800 +34%

2.72 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870 X2

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FirePro V9800

Graphics Card

Jul 2011

Release Date

Sep 2010

Northern Islands

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

1150 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

147.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

14

Compute Units

20

1120

Shading Units

1600

56

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

50.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.016 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.720 TFLOPS

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FP64 (double)

544.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

Cypress

Barts XT (215-0798000)

GPU Variant

Cypress XT GL

TeraScale 2

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

250W

700 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1 1x S-Video

-

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.4

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

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CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.0

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