AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs AMD FirePro W7000
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 and 4GB VRAM FirePro W7000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon HD 6970 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)
256 additional rendering cores
AMD FirePro W7000 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 6 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)
Lower TDP (150W vs 250W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 6970
+11%
2.703 TFLOPS
FirePro W7000
2.432 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2010
Release Date
Jun 2012
Northern Islands
Generation
FirePro
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
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1375 MHz
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
176.0GB/s
Bandwidth
153.6GB/s
Render Config
24
Compute Units
20
-
-
-
1536
Shading Units
1280
96
TMUs
80
32
ROPs
32
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-
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-
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
512 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
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-
-
Theoretical Performance
28.16 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
30.40 GPixel/s
84.48 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
76.00 GTexel/s
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2.703 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.432 TFLOPS
675.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
152.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
250W
TDP
150W
600 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.2
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Cayman
GPU Name
Pitcairn
Cayman XT
(215-0807007)
GPU Variant
Pitcairn XT GL
(215-0828073)
TeraScale 3
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
28 nm
2.64 billion
Transistors
2.8 billion
389 mm²
Die Size
212 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
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5.0
Shader Model
5.1
