Product Compare
AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition vs AMD FirePro W9100
| GPU | GPU | |
|---|---|---|
| Graphics Card | ||
| Release Date | Jan 2013 | Mar 2014 |
| Generation | Northern Islands | FirePro |
| Type | Desktop | Desktop |
| Bus Interface | PCIe 2.0 x16 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| Clock Speeds | ||
| Memory Clock | 1050 MHz | 1250 MHz |
| Memory | ||
| Memory Size | 1024MB | 16GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Memory Bus | 256bit | 512bit |
| Bandwidth | 134.4GB/s | 320.0GB/s |
| Render Config | ||
| Compute Units | 20 | 44 |
| Shading Units | 1600 | 2816 |
| TMUs | 80 | 176 |
| ROPs | 32 | 64 |
| L1 Cache | 8 KB (per CU) | 16 KB (per CU) |
| L2 Cache | 512 KB | 1024 KB |
| Theoretical Performance | ||
| Pixel Rate | 27.20 GPixel/s | 59.52 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 68.00 GTexel/s | 163.7 GTexel/s |
| FP32 (float) | 2.720 TFLOPS | 5.238 TFLOPS |
| FP64 (double) | 544.0 GFLOPS | 2.619 TFLOPS |
| Graphics Processor | ||
| GPU Name | Cypress | Hawaii |
| GPU Variant | Cypress XT(215-0735033) | Hawaii GL44 |
| Architecture | TeraScale 2 | GCN 2.0 |
| Foundry | TSMC | TSMC |
| Process Size | 40 nm | 28 nm |
| Transistors | 2.154 billion | 6.2 billion |
| Die Size | 334 mm² | 438 mm² |
| Board Design | ||
| TDP | 175W | 275W |
| Suggested PSU | 450 W | 600 W |
| Outputs | 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1 | 6x mini-DisplayPort 1.21x S-Video |
| Power Connectors | 2x 6-pin | 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin |
| Graphics Features | ||
| DirectX | 11.2 (11_0) | 12 (12_0) |
| OpenGL | 4.4 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 1.2 | 2.0 |
| Vulkan | N/A | 1.2 |
| Shader Model | 5.0 | 6.3 |