AMD Radeon Pro WX 2100 vs AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

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AMD Radeon Pro WX 2100

AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon Pro WX 2100 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro WX 2100 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1219MHz

Lower TDP (35W vs 250W)

AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM 's Advantages

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 48.00GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro WX 2100

1.248 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970 OEM +203%

3.789 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro WX 2100

VS

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

Graphics Card

Jun 2017

Release Date

Jan 2013

Radeon Pro Polaris

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

925 MHz

Base Clock

-

1219 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

384bit

48.00GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

32

-

512

Shading Units

2048

32

TMUs

128

16

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

19.50 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

39.01 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

1248 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1248 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

78.02 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

947.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

35W

TDP

250W

200 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DisplayPort 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

Tahiti

Lexa PRO GL

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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