AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs AMD FirePro S9150
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Dec 2010
Aug 2014
Generation
Northern Islands
FirePro
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
16GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
512bit
Bandwidth
176.0GB/s
320.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
24
44
Shading Units
1536
2816
TMUs
96
176
ROPs
32
64
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
512 KB
1024 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
28.16 GPixel/s
57.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
84.48 GTexel/s
158.4 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.703 TFLOPS
5.069 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
675.8 GFLOPS
2.534 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Cayman
Hawaii
GPU Variant
Cayman XT(215-0807007)
Hawaii GL44
Architecture
TeraScale 3
GCN 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
40 nm
28 nm
Transistors
2.64 billion
6.2 billion
Die Size
389 mm²
438 mm²
Board Design
TDP
250W
235W
Suggested PSU
600 W
550 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
No outputs
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-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