AMD Radeon HD 7970 vs AMD FirePro S7150 x2

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AMD Radeon HD 7970

AMD FirePro S7150 x2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 and 8GB VRAM FirePro S7150 x2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7970 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (250W vs 265W)

AMD FirePro S7150 x2 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970 +14%

3.789 TFLOPS

FirePro S7150 x2

3.297 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970

VS

FirePro S7150 x2

Graphics Card

Dec 2011

Release Date

Feb 2016

Southern Islands

Generation

FirePro Server

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/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

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.44 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

103.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

3.297 TFLOPS

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.297 TFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

206.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

265W

600 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Tonga

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

GPU Variant

Cloudy Tau

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

5 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

366 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2.170

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.5

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