AMD Radeon HD 6870 vs AMD FirePro W600

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 and 2GB VRAM FirePro W600 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6870 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

608 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro W600 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Lower TDP (75W vs 151W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6870 +162%

2.016 TFLOPS

FirePro W600

0.768 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870

VS

FirePro W600

Graphics Card

Oct 2010

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

1000 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

14

Compute Units

8

1120

Shading Units

512

56

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.00 GPixel/s

50.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

24.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.016 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

768.0 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

48.00 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

Cape Verde

Barts XT (215-0798000)

GPU Variant

Cape Verde PRO GL

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

151W

TDP

75W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

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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