AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM vs ATI FirePro 2270

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970 OEM and 512MB VRAM FirePro 2270 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM 's Advantages

Released 2 years late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 9.600GB/s)

1968 additional rendering cores

ATI FirePro 2270 's Advantages

Lower TDP (15W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8970 OEM +3846%

3.789 TFLOPS

FirePro 2270

0.096 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

VS

FirePro 2270

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Jan 2011

Sea Islands

Generation

FirePro Multi-View

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

64bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

9.600GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

32

Compute Units

1

2048

Shading Units

80

128

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.400 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.800 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

96.00 GFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Cedar

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

GPU Variant

Cedar WS

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

59 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

15W

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DMS-59

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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