AMD Radeon HD 7970 vs AMD FirePro W4300
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2012
Dec 2015
Generation
Southern Islands
FirePro
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
3GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
384bit
128bit
Bandwidth
264.0GB/s
96.00GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
32
12
Shading Units
2048
768
TMUs
128
48
ROPs
32
16
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
768 KB
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
29.60 GPixel/s
14.88 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
118.4 GTexel/s
44.64 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
3.789 TFLOPS
1428 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
947.2 GFLOPS
89.28 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Tahiti
Bonaire
GPU Variant
Tahiti XT(215-0821060)
Bonaire PRO GL
Architecture
GCN 1.0
GCN 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
4.313 billion
2.08 billion
Die Size
352 mm²
160 mm²
Board Design
TDP
250W
50W
Suggested PSU
600 W
250 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
None
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.1 (1.2)
2.0
Vulkan
1.2.170
1.2
Shader Model
6.5 (5.1)
6.3
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
2,310
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3DMark Time Spy Extreme
1,209
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.