AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition vs AMD FirePro W7000

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AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition AMD FirePro W7000

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition and 4GB VRAM FirePro W7000 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

Released 7 months late

320 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro W7000 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

Lower TDP (150W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition +11%

2.72 TFLOPS

FirePro W7000

2.432 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

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FirePro W7000

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Jun 2012

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

1200 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

20

Compute Units

20

1600

Shading Units

1280

80

TMUs

80

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

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

30.40 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

76.00 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

-

2.720 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.432 TFLOPS

544.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

152.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

Pitcairn

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GPU Variant

Pitcairn XT GL (215-0828073)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

175W

TDP

150W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.2

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-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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