AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2 vs AMD FirePro W8100

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

AMD FirePro W8100

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 X2 and 8GB VRAM FirePro W8100 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W8100 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 264.0GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (220W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970 X2

3.789 TFLOPS

FirePro W8100 +11%

4.219 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 X2

VS

FirePro W8100

Graphics Card

Aug 2012

Release Date

Jun 2014

Southern Islands

Generation

FirePro

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

512bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

40

-

2048

Shading Units

2560

128

TMUs

160

32

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

52.74 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

131.8 GTexel/s

-

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.219 TFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

2.109 TFLOPS

Board Design

500W

TDP

220W

900 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

3x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

New Zealand

GPU Name

Hawaii

-

GPU Variant

Hawaii GL40

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.3

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