AMD Radeon Pro WX 7100 vs AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

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AMD Radeon Pro WX 7100

AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro WX 7100 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 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)

AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro WX 7100 +51%

5.728 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

3.789 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro WX 7100

VS

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

Graphics Card

Nov 2016

Release Date

Jan 2013

Radeon Pro

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1188 MHz

Base Clock

-

1243 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

32

-

2304

Shading Units

2048

144

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

39.78 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

179.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

5.728 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.728 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

358.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

947.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

130W

TDP

250W

300 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

Tahiti

Polaris 10 XT GL

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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