AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM vs ATI FirePro 2450 Multi View

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

ATI FirePro 2450 Multi View

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970 OEM and 256MB VRAM FirePro 2450 Multi View 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 4 years late

More VRAM (3GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)

2008 additional rendering cores

ATI FirePro 2450 Multi View 's Advantages

Lower TDP (32W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8970 OEM +11740%

3.789 TFLOPS

FirePro 2450 Multi View

0.032 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

VS

FirePro 2450 Multi View

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Jan 2009

Sea Islands

Generation

FirePro Multi-View

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

64bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

6.400GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

2

-

2048

Shading Units

40

128

TMUs

4

32

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.600 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1.600 GTexel/s

-

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

32.00 GFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

250W

TDP

32W

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x VHDCI

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

RV620

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

GPU Variant

RV620 PRO (215-0670006)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.181 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

67 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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