AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition vs AMD FirePro S10000 Passive 12GB

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AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition AMD FirePro S10000 Passive 12GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition and 6GB VRAM FirePro S10000 Passive 12GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (175W vs 375W)

AMD FirePro S10000 Passive 12GB 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock950MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

192 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

2.72 TFLOPS

FirePro S10000 Passive 12GB +25%

3.405 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

VS

FirePro S10000 Passive 12GB

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Mar 2014

Northern Islands

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

825 MHz

-

Boost Clock

950 MHz

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

20

Compute Units

28

1600

Shading Units

1792

80

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

30.40 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

106.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.720 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.405 TFLOPS

544.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

851.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

Tahiti

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GPU Variant

Orthrus

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

175W

TDP

375W

450 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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