AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs AMD FirePro S9300 X2
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
May 2013
Mar 2016
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
500 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
HBM
Memory Bus
256bit
4096bit
Bandwidth
153.6GB/s
512.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
20
64
Shading Units
1280
4096
TMUs
80
256
ROPs
32
64
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
512 KB
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
28.80 GPixel/s
62.40 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
72.00 GTexel/s
249.6 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.304 TFLOPS
7.987 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
144.0 GFLOPS
499.2 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Neptune
Capsaicin
GPU Variant
Neptune XT(216-0847000)
Capsaicin XT
Architecture
GCN 1.0
GCN 3.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
2.8 billion
8.9 billion
Die Size
212 mm²
596 mm²
Board Design
TDP
100W
300W
Outputs
No outputs
No outputs
Suggested PSU
—
700 W
Power Connectors
—
2x 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
6.0
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.