Product Compare

AMD FirePro W7100 vs AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Aug 2014 Jan 2013
Generation FirePro Northern Islands
Type Desktop Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock 1250 MHz 1050 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 8GB 1024MB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Bus 256bit 256bit
Bandwidth 160.0GB/s 134.4GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 28 20
Shading Units 1792 1600
TMUs 112 80
ROPs 32 32
L1 Cache 16 KB (per CU) 8 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache 512 KB 512 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 29.44 GPixel/s 27.20 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 103.0 GTexel/s 68.00 GTexel/s
FP16 (half) 3.297 TFLOPS
FP32 (float) 3.297 TFLOPS 2.720 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 206.1 GFLOPS 544.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Tonga Cypress
GPU Variant Tonga PRO GL Cypress XT(215-0735033)
Architecture GCN 3.0 TeraScale 2
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Process Size 28 nm 40 nm
Transistors 5 billion 2.154 billion
Die Size 366 mm² 334 mm²
Board Design
TDP 150W 175W
Suggested PSU 450 W 450 W
Outputs 4x DisplayPort 1.2 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Power Connectors 1x 6-pin 2x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 (12_0) 11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.6 4.4
OpenCL 2.0 1.2
Vulkan 1.2 N/A
Shader Model 6.3 5.0