AMD Radeon HD 7950 vs AMD FirePro S9100

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7950

AMD FirePro S9100

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 and 12GB VRAM FirePro S9100 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7950 's Advantages

Lower TDP (200W vs 225W)

AMD FirePro S9100 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (12GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7950

2.867 TFLOPS

FirePro S9100 +47%

4.219 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950

VS

FirePro S9100

Graphics Card

Jan 2012

Release Date

Oct 2014

Southern Islands

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

512bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

40

-

1792

Shading Units

2560

112

TMUs

160

32

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

52.74 GPixel/s

89.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

131.8 GTexel/s

-

2.867 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.219 TFLOPS

716.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

2.109 TFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

225W

550 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Hawaii

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

GPU Variant

Hawaii GL40

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.3

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