Radeon HD 7970 and FirePro V8800 - video card comparison

Radeon HD 7970

FirePro V8800

Architecture

GCN (2011−2017)

TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)

GPU code name

Tahiti XT

Cypress

Market segment

Desktop

Workstation

Release date

December 2011

April 2010

Bus support

PCIe 2.1 x16

-

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

2x 6-pin

Boost clock speed

925 MHz

-

Core clock speed

-

825 MHz

Floating-point performance

3,789 gflops

2,640.0 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

40 nm

Number of transistors

4,313 million

2,154 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2048

1600

Power consumption (TDP)

300 Watt

208 Watt

Texture fill rate

118.4

66.00

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

6 GB

2 GB

Memory bus width

384 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

1375 MHz

4600 MHz

Memory bandwidth

264 GB/s

147.2 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort

4x DisplayPort, 1x S-Video

Eyefinity

+

-

HDMI

+

-

DisplayPort support

-

-

DirectX

DirectX® 11

11.2 (11_0)

Mantle

-

-

OpenCL

1.2

1.2

OpenGL

4.6

4.4

Shader Model

5.1

5.0

Vulkan

-

N/A

AppAcceleration

-

-

CrossFire

1

-

Enduro

-

-

FreeSync

1

-

HD3D

-

-

PowerTune

-

-

TrueAudio

-

-

ZeroCore

-

-