AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition vs ATI FirePro V9800

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

ATI FirePro V9800

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition and 4GB VRAM FirePro V9800 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

Released 1 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1050MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 147.2GB/s)

448 additional rendering cores

ATI FirePro V9800 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (250W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition +58%

4.301 TFLOPS

FirePro V9800

2.72 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

VS

FirePro V9800

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Sep 2010

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

1150 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

147.2GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

20

-

2048

Shading Units

1600

128

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

33.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

134.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

-

4.301 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.720 TFLOPS

1075 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

544.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

300W

TDP

250W

700 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Cypress

Tahiti XT2 (215-0821065)

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

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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