AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM vs AMD FirePro S7150 x2

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AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

AMD FirePro S7150 x2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950 OEM 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 8950 OEM 's Advantages

Boost Clock925MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (200W vs 265W)

AMD FirePro S7150 x2 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 1 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8950 OEM

3.315 TFLOPS

FirePro S7150 x2

3.297 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950 OEM

VS

FirePro S7150 x2

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Feb 2016

Sea Islands

Generation

FirePro Server

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

-

925 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

28

-

1792

Shading Units

1792

112

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

103.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

103.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

3.297 TFLOPS

3.315 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.297 TFLOPS

828.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

206.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

265W

550 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Tonga

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

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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