FirePro W7100 and Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition - video card comparison
FirePro W7100
Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition
Architecture
GCN 3.0 (2014−2017)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
Tonga
Blackcomb
Market segment
Workstation
Desktop
Release date
August 2014
August 2011
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Core clock speed
920 MHz
680 MHz
Floating-point performance
3,297 gflops
1,305.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
5,000 million
1,700 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1792
960
Power consumption (TDP)
400 Watt
75 Watt
Texture fill rate
103.0
32.64
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
5000 MHz
3600 MHz
Memory bandwidth
160 GB/s
115.2 GB/s
Display Connectors
4x DisplayPort
No outputs
DisplayPort count
4
-
Dual-link DVI support
1
-
HD сomponent video output
1
-
DirectX
12 (12_0)
11.2 (11_0)
OpenCL
2.0
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
Shader Model
6.3
5.0
Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A
StereoOutput3D
1
-