AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM vs ATI FirePro V4800

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

ATI FirePro V4800

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970 OEM and 1024MB VRAM FirePro V4800 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 9 months late

More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

1648 additional rendering cores

ATI FirePro V4800 's Advantages

Lower TDP (69W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8970 OEM +511%

3.789 TFLOPS

FirePro V4800

0.62 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

VS

FirePro V4800

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Apr 2010

Sea Islands

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

5

-

2048

Shading Units

400

128

TMUs

20

32

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.200 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.50 GTexel/s

-

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

620.0 GFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

250W

TDP

69W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 2x DisplayPort 1.1

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Redwood

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

GPU Variant

Redwood XT GL

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.627 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

104 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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