Radeon HD 7970 and FirePro W9000 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 7970 vs FirePro W9000
Radeon HD 7970
5405
FirePro W9000
6322
Radeon HD 7970
FirePro W9000
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
Tahiti XT
Tahiti
Market segment
Desktop
Workstation
Release date
December 2011
June 2012
Bus support
PCIe 2.1 x16
PCIe 3.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
925 MHz
-
Core clock speed
-
975 MHz
Floating-point performance
3,789 gflops
3,994 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
4,313 million
4,313 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2048
2048
Power consumption (TDP)
300 Watt
350 Watt
Texture fill rate
118.4
124.8
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
6 GB
6 GB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
384 Bit
Memory clock speed
1375 MHz
5500 MHz
Memory bandwidth
264 GB/s
264 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
6x mini-DisplayPort, 1x SDI
Eyefinity
+
-
Dual-link DVI support
-
1
HDMI
+
-
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
DirectX® 11
12 (11_1)
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
-
1.2.131
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
StereoOutput3D
-
1
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-