AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition vs ATI FirePro V8700 Duo

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AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition ATI FirePro V8700 Duo

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition and 1024MB VRAM FirePro V8700 Duo 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 Clock1050MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 108.8GB/s)

1248 additional rendering cores

ATI FirePro V8700 Duo 's Advantages

Lower TDP (151W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition +258%

4.301 TFLOPS

FirePro V8700 Duo

1.2 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

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FirePro V8700 Duo

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Unknown

Southern Islands

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

-

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

850 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

108.8GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

32

Compute Units

10

2048

Shading Units

800

128

TMUs

40

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

33.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.00 GPixel/s

134.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

30.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

4.301 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1200 GFLOPS

1075 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

RV770

Tahiti XT2 (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

RV770 XT (215-0669049)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.956 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

256 mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

151W

700 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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