AMD FirePro W4000 vs AMD Radeon HD 6870

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro W4000 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W4000 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Lower TDP (75W vs 151W)

AMD Radeon HD 6870 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 102.4GB/s)

352 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W4000

1.267 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870 +59%

2.016 TFLOPS

FirePro W4000

VS

Radeon HD 6870

Graphics Card

Aug 2012

Release Date

Oct 2010

FirePro

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1050 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

102.4GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

12

Compute Units

14

768

Shading Units

1120

48

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

26.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

39.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

50.40 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1267 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.016 TFLOPS

79.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

Barts

Pitcairn LE GL

GPU Variant

Barts XT (215-0798000)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

255 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

151W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 2x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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