AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs AMD FirePro S9150

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 and 16GB VRAM FirePro S9150 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro S9150 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (235W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970

2.703 TFLOPS

FirePro S9150 +87%

5.069 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970

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FirePro S9150

Graphics Card

Dec 2010

Release Date

Aug 2014

Northern Islands

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

24

Compute Units

44

1536

Shading Units

2816

96

TMUs

176

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

28.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

57.60 GPixel/s

84.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

158.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.069 TFLOPS

675.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

2.534 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

Hawaii

Cayman XT (215-0807007)

GPU Variant

Hawaii GL44

TeraScale 3

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

235W

600 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-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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