AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM vs AMD FirePro W4100

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AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM AMD FirePro W4100

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970 OEM and 2GB VRAM FirePro W4100 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM 's Advantages

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro W4100 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 7 months late

Lower TDP (50W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8970 OEM +487%

3.789 TFLOPS

FirePro W4100

0.645 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

VS

FirePro W4100

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Aug 2014

Sea Islands

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

32

Compute Units

8

2048

Shading Units

512

128

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.08 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

20.16 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

645.1 GFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

40.32 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Cape Verde

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

GPU Variant

Cape Verde PRO GL

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

50W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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