AMD FirePro D300 vs AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2014
Jan 2013
Generation
FirePro
Sea Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1270 MHz
1375 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
3GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
384bit
Bandwidth
162.6GB/s
264.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
20
32
Shading Units
1280
2048
TMUs
80
128
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
512 KB
768 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
27.20 GPixel/s
29.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
68.00 GTexel/s
118.4 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.176 TFLOPS
3.789 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
136.0 GFLOPS
947.2 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Pitcairn
Tahiti
GPU Variant
Pitcairn XT GL(215-0828073)
Tahiti XT(215-0821060)
Architecture
GCN 1.0
GCN 1.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
2.8 billion
4.313 billion
Die Size
212 mm²
352 mm²
Board Design
TDP
150W
250W
Suggested PSU
450 W
600 W
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.2
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
—
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
Vulkan
1.2
1.2
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.