AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM vs AMD FirePro W7100

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

AMD FirePro W7100

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970 OEM and 8GB VRAM FirePro W7100 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 160.0GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro W7100 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (150W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8970 OEM +14%

3.789 TFLOPS

FirePro W7100

3.297 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

VS

FirePro W7100

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

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/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

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.44 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

103.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

3.297 TFLOPS

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.297 TFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

206.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

150W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Tonga

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

GPU Variant

Tonga PRO GL

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

5 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

366 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.3

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