AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM vs AMD FireStream 9350

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

AMD FireStream 9350

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970 OEM and 2GB VRAM FireStream 9350 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 7 months late

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

608 additional rendering cores

AMD FireStream 9350 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8970 OEM +87%

3.789 TFLOPS

FireStream 9350

2.016 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

VS

FireStream 9350

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Jun 2010

Sea Islands

Generation

FireStream

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

18

-

2048

Shading Units

1440

128

TMUs

72

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

22.40 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

50.40 GTexel/s

-

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.016 TFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

403.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

150W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x DisplayPort 1.1

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Cypress

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

GPU Variant

Cypress PRO GL

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

334 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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