AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT vs ATI FirePro V8800

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT

ATI FirePro V8800

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870 XT and 2GB VRAM FirePro V8800 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock975MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 147.2GB/s)

Lower TDP (185W vs 208W)

ATI FirePro V8800 's Advantages

64 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7870 XT +13%

2.995 TFLOPS

FirePro V8800

2.64 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870 XT

VS

FirePro V8800

Graphics Card

Nov 2012

Release Date

Apr 2010

Southern Islands

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

925 MHz

Base Clock

-

975 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1150 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

147.2GB/s

Render Config

24

Compute Units

20

-

1536

Shading Units

1600

96

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

31.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

26.40 GPixel/s

93.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

66.00 GTexel/s

-

2.995 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.640 TFLOPS

748.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

528.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

185W

TDP

208W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.1 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Cypress

Tahiti LE (215-0821122)

GPU Variant

Cypress XT GL

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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