AMD Radeon Pro SSG vs AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

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AMD Radeon Pro SSG AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro SSG and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro SSG 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1500MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

2816 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (175W vs 260W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro SSG +380%

12.29 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

2.56 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro SSG

VS

Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

Graphics Card

Aug 2017

Release Date

Mar 2012

Radeon Pro

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1440 MHz

Base Clock

-

1500 MHz

Boost Clock

-

945 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

2GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

2048bit

Memory Bus

256bit

483.8GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

64

Compute Units

20

4096

Shading Units

1280

256

TMUs

80

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

96.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

384.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

80.00 GTexel/s

24.58 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.29 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.560 TFLOPS

768.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

160.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

Pitcairn

Vega 10 XT GL (215-0894124)

GPU Variant

Pitcairn XT (215-0828047)

GCN 5.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

495 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

260W

TDP

175W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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