AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs AMD FirePro W7100

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6970

AMD FirePro W7100

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 and 8GB VRAM FirePro W7100 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 160.0GB/s)

AMD FirePro W7100 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

256 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970

2.703 TFLOPS

FirePro W7100 +21%

3.297 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970

VS

FirePro W7100

Graphics Card

Dec 2010

Release Date

Aug 2014

Northern Islands

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

24

Compute Units

28

-

1536

Shading Units

1792

96

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

32

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.44 GPixel/s

84.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

103.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

3.297 TFLOPS

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.297 TFLOPS

675.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

206.1 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

Tonga

Cayman XT (215-0807007)

GPU Variant

Tonga PRO GL

TeraScale 3

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

5 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

366 mm²

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

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.3

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