AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2 vs AMD FirePro RG220A

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

AMD FirePro RG220A

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 X2 and 512MB VRAM FirePro RG220A to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

1968 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro RG220A 's Advantages

Lower TDP (35W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970 X2 +4636%

3.789 TFLOPS

FirePro RG220A

0.08 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 X2

VS

FirePro RG220A

Graphics Card

Aug 2012

Release Date

May 2010

Southern Islands

Generation

FirePro Remote

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

51.20GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

1

-

2048

Shading Units

80

128

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.000 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.000 GTexel/s

-

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

80.00 GFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

500W

TDP

35W

900 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI

3x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

New Zealand

GPU Name

M93

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.242 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

73 mm²

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

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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