AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2 vs AMD FirePro W2100

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

AMD FirePro W2100

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 X2 and 2GB VRAM FirePro W2100 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2 's Advantages

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

1728 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro W2100 's Advantages

Released 2 years late

Boost Clock680MHz

Lower TDP (26W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970 X2 +771%

3.789 TFLOPS

FirePro W2100

0.435 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 X2

VS

FirePro W2100

Graphics Card

Aug 2012

Release Date

Aug 2014

Southern Islands

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

630 MHz

-

Boost Clock

680 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

5

-

2048

Shading Units

320

128

TMUs

20

32

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.440 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

13.60 GTexel/s

-

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

435.2 GFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

27.20 GFLOPS

Board Design

500W

TDP

26W

900 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

2x DisplayPort 1.2

3x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

New Zealand

GPU Name

Oland

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.95 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

77 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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