AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition vs AMD FirePro W9100
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jun 2012
Mar 2014
Generation
Southern Islands
FirePro
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1000 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1050 MHz
-
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
3GB
16GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
384bit
512bit
Bandwidth
288.0GB/s
320.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
32
44
Shading Units
2048
2816
TMUs
128
176
ROPs
32
64
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
768 KB
1024 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
33.60 GPixel/s
59.52 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
134.4 GTexel/s
163.7 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
4.301 TFLOPS
5.238 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1075 GFLOPS
2.619 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Tahiti
Hawaii
GPU Variant
Tahiti XT2(215-0821065)
Hawaii GL44
Architecture
GCN 1.0
GCN 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
4.313 billion
6.2 billion
Die Size
352 mm²
438 mm²
Board Design
TDP
300W
275W
Suggested PSU
700 W
600 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.21x S-Video
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.2
Shader Model
5.1
6.3