AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM vs AMD FirePro S10000

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

AMD FirePro S10000

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970 OEM and 3GB VRAM FirePro S10000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (250W vs 375W)

AMD FirePro S10000 's Advantages

Boost Clock950MHz

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8970 OEM +11%

3.789 TFLOPS

FirePro S10000

3.405 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

VS

FirePro S10000

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Nov 2012

Sea Islands

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

825 MHz

-

Boost Clock

950 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

384bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

28

-

2048

Shading Units

1792

128

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

30.40 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

106.4 GTexel/s

-

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.405 TFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

851.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

375W

600 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Tahiti

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

GPU Variant

Zaphod

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

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5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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