GPU Comparison
RADEON
AMD FirePro W4300
CORE STATE
Bonaire
VRAM
4 GB
CLOCK SPEED
—
TDP
50 W
BUS WIDTH
128 bit
ARCHITECTURE
GCN 2.0
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2015
VS
RADEON
Radeon HD 7970
CORE STATE
Tahiti
VRAM
3 GB
CLOCK SPEED
—
TDP
250 W
BUS WIDTH
384 bit
ARCHITECTURE
GCN 1.0
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2012
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
geekbench_opencl
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
FirePro W4300
HD 7970
Core Specs
Shading Units
768
2,048
+166.7%
Shaders
768
2,048
+166.7%
TMUs
48
128
+166.7%
ROPs
16
32
+100.0%
Compute Units
12
32
+166.7%
Clocks
GPU Clock
930 MHz
925 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
6 Gbps effective
1375 MHz
5.5 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
4 GB
3 GB
VRAM (MB)
4,096
3,072
-25.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128 bit
384 bit
Bandwidth
96.00 GB/s
264.0 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
256 KB
768 KB
Performance
Pixel Rate
14.88 GPixel/s
29.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
44.64 GTexel/s
118.4 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
1,428.5 GFLOPS
3.789 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
89.28 GFLOPS (1:16)
947.2 GFLOPS (1:4)
Power
TDP
50 W
250 W
TDP (W)
50
250
+400.0%
Suggested PSU
250 W
600 W
Power Connectors
None
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 2.0
GCN 1.0
GPU Name
Bonaire
Tahiti
Generation
FirePro GCN
(Wx300)
Southern Islands
(HD 7900)
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
2,080 million
4,313 million
Die Size
160 mm²
352 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Density
13.0M / mm²
12.3M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
1.2.170
1.2.170
OpenCL
2.1
2.1 (1.2)
Shader Model
6.5
6.5 (5.1)
Physical
Slot Width
Single-slot
Dual-slot
Length
171 mm
6.7 inches
275 mm
10.8 inches
Height
69 mm
2.7 inches
111 mm
4.4 inches
Outputs
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Other
Launch Price
—
549 USD
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
FirePro Terascale
Northern Islands
Successor
Radeon Pro GCN
Sea Islands