AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition vs AMD FirePro S9300 X2

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AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition AMD FirePro S9300 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition and 4GB VRAM FirePro S9300 X2 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

Lower TDP (175W vs 300W)

AMD FirePro S9300 X2 's Advantages

Released 4 years late

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

2816 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

2.56 TFLOPS

FirePro S9300 X2 +211%

7.987 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

VS

FirePro S9300 X2

Graphics Card

Mar 2012

Release Date

Mar 2016

Southern Islands

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM

256bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

20

Compute Units

64

1280

Shading Units

4096

80

TMUs

256

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

62.40 GPixel/s

80.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

249.6 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.560 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.987 TFLOPS

160.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

499.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

Capsaicin

Pitcairn XT (215-0828047)

GPU Variant

Capsaicin XT

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

8.9 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

596 mm²

Board Design

175W

TDP

300W

450 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.0

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