Radeon HD 6870M and FirePro S7100X - video card comparison
Radeon HD 6870M
FirePro S7100X
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GCN 3.0 (2014−2017)
GPU code name
Granville-PRO
Amethyst
Market segment
Laptop
Mobile workstation
Release date
January 2011
May 2016
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
Core clock speed
675 MHz
725 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,080.0 gflops
2,961 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
1,040 million
5,000 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
800
2048
Power consumption (TDP)
50 Watt
100 Watt
Texture fill rate
27.00
92.80
Memory type
DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1000 MHz
5000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
64 GB/s
160.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 (12_0)
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
6.3
Vulkan
N/A
1.2.131