AMD Radeon HD 7950 vs AMD FirePro W9000

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7950

AMD FirePro W9000

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 and 6GB VRAM FirePro W9000 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 274W)

AMD FirePro W9000 's Advantages

More VRAM (6GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7950

2.867 TFLOPS

FirePro W9000 +39%

3.994 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950

VS

FirePro W9000

Graphics Card

Jan 2012

Release Date

Jun 2012

Southern Islands

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

384bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

32

-

1792

Shading Units

2048

112

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.20 GPixel/s

89.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

124.8 GTexel/s

-

2.867 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.994 TFLOPS

716.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

998.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

274W

550 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Tahiti

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT GL

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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