AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM vs AMD FirePro RG220

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

AMD FirePro RG220

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970 OEM and 512MB VRAM FirePro RG220 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 and 8 months late

More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

1968 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro RG220 's Advantages

Lower TDP (35W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8970 OEM +4636%

3.789 TFLOPS

FirePro RG220

0.08 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

VS

FirePro RG220

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

May 2010

Sea Islands

Generation

FirePro RG

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

51.20GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

1

-

2048

Shading Units

80

128

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.000 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.000 GTexel/s

-

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

80.00 GFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

250W

TDP

35W

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 Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

M93

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.242 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

73 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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