AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition vs AMD FirePro RG220

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

AMD FirePro RG220

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition and 512MB VRAM FirePro RG220 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

1200 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro RG220 's Advantages

Lower TDP (35W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition +3100%

2.56 TFLOPS

FirePro RG220

0.08 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

VS

FirePro RG220

Graphics Card

Mar 2012

Release Date

May 2010

Southern Islands

Generation

FirePro RG

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

51.20GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

1

-

1280

Shading Units

80

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.000 GPixel/s

80.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.000 GTexel/s

-

2.560 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

80.00 GFLOPS

160.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

175W

TDP

35W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DMS-59

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

M93

Pitcairn XT (215-0828047)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.242 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

73 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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