AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2 vs AMD FirePro W8000

VS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 X2 and 4GB VRAM FirePro W8000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro W8000 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (225W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970 X2 +17%

3.789 TFLOPS

FirePro W8000

3.226 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 X2

VS

FirePro W8000

Graphics Card

Aug 2012

Release Date

Jun 2012

Southern Islands

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

32

Compute Units

28

2048

Shading Units

1792

128

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

100.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.226 TFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

806.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

New Zealand

GPU Name

Tahiti

-

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO GL

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

500W

TDP

225W

900 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

3x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

Related GPU Comparisons

1

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Ti vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

2

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

3

NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN X vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

4

AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2 vs AMD Radeon Pro WX 8200

5

AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2 vs AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT

6

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

7

AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2 vs Intel Arc A780

8

AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2 vs AMD Radeon HD 6950

9

AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2 vs ATI Radeon HD 4770

10

AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2 vs AMD Radeon PRO W7600