AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT vs ATI FirePro V9800P

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AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT ATI FirePro V9800P

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870 XT and 4GB VRAM FirePro V9800P 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 2 months late

Boost Clock975MHz

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

Lower TDP (185W vs 225W)

ATI FirePro V9800P 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

64 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7870 XT +10%

2.995 TFLOPS

FirePro V9800P

2.72 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870 XT

VS

FirePro V9800P

Graphics Card

Nov 2012

Release Date

Sep 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

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

147.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

24

Compute Units

20

1536

Shading Units

1600

96

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

31.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

93.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.995 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.720 TFLOPS

748.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

544.0 GFLOPS

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

Board Design

185W

TDP

225W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

1x DisplayPort 1.1

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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