FirePro V7900 and Radeon HD 7970 X2 - video card comparison

FirePro V7900

Radeon HD 7970 X2

Architecture

TeraScale 3 (2010−2013)

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

GPU code name

Cayman

New Zealand

Market segment

Workstation

Desktop

Release date

May 2011

August 2012

Bus support

PCIe 2.1 x16

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Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

3x 8-pin

Core clock speed

725 MHz

925 MHz

Floating-point performance

1,856.0 gflops

2x 3,789 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

2,640 million

4,313 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1280

2048

Power consumption (TDP)

151 Watt

500 Watt

Texture fill rate

58.00

118.4

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

3 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

384 Bit

Memory clock speed

5000 MHz

5500 MHz

Memory bandwidth

160 GB/s

264.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

4x DisplayPort

1x DVI, 4x mini-DisplayPort

DisplayPort count

4

-

Dual-link DVI support

1

-

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

12 (11_1)

OpenCL

1.2

1.2

OpenGL

4.4

4.6

Shader Model

5.0

5.1

Vulkan

N/A

1.2.131

StereoOutput3D

1

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