AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition vs AMD FirePro W9000

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

AMD FirePro W9000

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition 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 7970 GHz Edition 's Advantages

Boost Clock1050MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 264.0GB/s)

AMD FirePro W9000 's Advantages

More VRAM (6GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (274W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition +7%

4.301 TFLOPS

FirePro W9000

3.994 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

VS

FirePro W9000

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Jun 2012

Southern Islands

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

-

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

384bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

32

-

2048

Shading Units

2048

128

TMUs

128

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

31.20 GPixel/s

134.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

124.8 GTexel/s

-

4.301 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.994 TFLOPS

1075 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

998.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

300W

TDP

274W

700 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Tahiti

Tahiti XT2 (215-0821065)

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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