AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition vs AMD FirePro S10000

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

AMD FirePro S10000

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition and 3GB VRAM FirePro S10000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 11% (1050MHz vs 950MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (300W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition +26%

4.301 TFLOPS

FirePro S10000

3.405 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

VS

FirePro S10000

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Nov 2012

Southern Islands

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

825 MHz

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

950 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

384bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

28

-

2048

Shading Units

1792

128

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

33.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

30.40 GPixel/s

134.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

106.4 GTexel/s

-

4.301 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.405 TFLOPS

1075 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

851.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

300W

TDP

375W

700 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Tahiti

Tahiti XT2 (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

Zaphod

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

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5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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