AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs AMD FirePro S9000

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 and 6GB VRAM FirePro S9000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro S9000 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (225W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970

2.703 TFLOPS

FirePro S9000 +19%

3.226 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970

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FirePro S9000

Graphics Card

Dec 2010

Release Date

Aug 2012

Northern Islands

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

24

Compute Units

28

1536

Shading Units

1792

96

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

28.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

84.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

100.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.226 TFLOPS

675.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

806.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

Tahiti

Cayman XT (215-0807007)

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO GL

TeraScale 3

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

225W

600 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

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

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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