AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2 vs AMD FirePro W4300

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 X2 and 4GB VRAM FirePro W4300 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

352 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro W4300 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Lower TDP (50W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6870 X2 +41%

2.016 TFLOPS

FirePro W4300

1.428 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870 X2

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FirePro W4300

Graphics Card

Jul 2011

Release Date

Dec 2015

Northern Islands

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

14

Compute Units

12

1120

Shading Units

768

56

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

14.88 GPixel/s

50.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

44.64 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.016 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1428 GFLOPS

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FP64 (double)

89.28 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

Bonaire

Barts XT (215-0798000)

GPU Variant

Bonaire PRO GL

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

50W

700 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

-

Power Connectors

None

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

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.3

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