AMD Radeon HD 7970 vs AMD FirePro S9000

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 and 6GB VRAM FirePro S9000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7970 's Advantages

256 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro S9000 's Advantages

Released 8 months late

More VRAM (6GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (225W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970 +17%

3.789 TFLOPS

FirePro S9000

3.226 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970

VS

FirePro S9000

Graphics Card

Dec 2011

Release Date

Aug 2012

Southern Islands

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

384bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

32

Compute Units

28

2048

Shading Units

1792

128

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

100.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.226 TFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

806.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Tahiti

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO 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

Board Design

250W

TDP

225W

600 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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