AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2 vs AMD FirePro S7150

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 X2 and 8GB VRAM FirePro S7150 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro S7150 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

928 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6870 X2

2.016 TFLOPS

FirePro S7150 +86%

3.768 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870 X2

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FirePro S7150

Graphics Card

Jul 2011

Release Date

Feb 2016

Northern Islands

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

14

Compute Units

32

1120

Shading Units

2048

56

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.44 GPixel/s

50.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

117.8 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

7.537 TFLOPS

2.016 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.768 TFLOPS

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FP64 (double)

235.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

Tonga

Barts XT (215-0798000)

GPU Variant

Tonga XT GL

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

5 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

366 mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

150W

700 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.3

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