AMD FirePro S9100 vs AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Oct 2014
Nov 2012
Generation
FirePro
Southern Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
1500 MHz
Base Clock
—
925 MHz
Boost Clock
—
975 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
12GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
512bit
256bit
Bandwidth
320.0GB/s
192.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
40
24
Shading Units
2560
1536
TMUs
160
96
ROPs
64
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
1024 KB
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
52.74 GPixel/s
31.20 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
131.8 GTexel/s
93.60 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
4.219 TFLOPS
2.995 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
2.109 TFLOPS
748.8 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Hawaii
Tahiti
GPU Variant
Hawaii GL40
Tahiti LE(215-0821122)
Architecture
GCN 2.0
GCN 1.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
6.2 billion
4.313 billion
Die Size
438 mm²
352 mm²
Board Design
TDP
225W
185W
Suggested PSU
550 W
450 W
Outputs
No outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
2x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.2
1.2
Shader Model
6.3
5.1
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.