AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition vs AMD FirePro S9100
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Mar 2012
Oct 2014
Generation
Southern Islands
FirePro
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
12GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
512bit
Bandwidth
153.6GB/s
320.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
20
40
Shading Units
1280
2560
TMUs
80
160
ROPs
32
64
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
512 KB
1024 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
32.00 GPixel/s
52.74 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
80.00 GTexel/s
131.8 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.560 TFLOPS
4.219 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
160.0 GFLOPS
2.109 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Pitcairn
Hawaii
GPU Variant
Pitcairn XT(215-0828047)
Hawaii GL40
Architecture
GCN 1.0
GCN 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
2.8 billion
6.2 billion
Die Size
212 mm²
438 mm²
Board Design
TDP
175W
225W
Suggested PSU
450 W
550 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
No outputs
Power Connectors
2x 6-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
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.