AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM vs AMD Radeon Pro WX 7100

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

AMD Radeon Pro WX 7100

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970 OEM and 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro WX 7100 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 224.0GB/s)

AMD Radeon Pro WX 7100 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1243MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

256 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (130W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

3.789 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro WX 7100 +51%

5.728 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

VS

Radeon Pro WX 7100

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Nov 2016

Sea Islands

Generation

Radeon Pro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1188 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1243 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

36

-

2048

Shading Units

2304

128

TMUs

144

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

39.78 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

179.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

5.728 TFLOPS

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.728 TFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

358.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

130W

600 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Ellesmere

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

GPU Variant

Polaris 10 XT GL

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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