AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs AMD FirePro S9100
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
May 2013
Oct 2014
Generation
Solar System
FirePro
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
850 MHz
—
Boost Clock
900 MHz
—
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
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
28.80 GPixel/s
52.74 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
72.00 GTexel/s
131.8 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.304 TFLOPS
4.219 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
144.0 GFLOPS
2.109 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Neptune
Hawaii
GPU Variant
Neptune XT(216-0847000)
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
100W
225W
Outputs
No outputs
No outputs
Suggested PSU
—
550 W
Power Connectors
—
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.