FirePro S7150 vs Radeon HD 7870

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between FirePro S7150 and Radeon HD 7870, there are a couple of things to consider. Cards with more VRAM in general perform better and allow you to play on higher graphics settings. Size also makes a difference. A model with a large heatsink can occupy up to three expansion slots on a motherboard. Be sure you have enough room in your PC case. When comparing GPUs with different architectures, more processing cores and even higher TFLOPS will not always translate to better performance. To help you decide which GPU you need, we have measured frame rates in a number of popular games. For more on how the FirePro S7150 stacks up against Radeon HD 7870, check out specs charts below.

Main Specs

  FirePro S7150 Radeon HD 7870
Power consumption (TDP) 150 Watt 175 Watt
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 2 GB
Display Connectors No outputs
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  • Radeon HD 7870 has 16% more power consumption, than FirePro S7150.
  • FirePro S7150 has 6 GB more memory, than Radeon HD 7870.
  • Both cards are used in Desktops.
  • FirePro S7150 is build with GCN 3.0 architecture, and Radeon HD 7870 - with GCN.
  • Core clock speed of Radeon HD 7870 is 80 MHz higher, than FirePro S7150.
  • FirePro S7150 and Radeon HD 7870 are manufactured by 28 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of FirePro S7150 is 200 MHz higher, than Radeon HD 7870.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 35−40 24−27
ultra / 1080p 21−24 14−16
QHD / 1440p 16−18 9−10
4K / 2160p 10−11 6−7
low / 720p 60−65 45−50
medium / 1080p 40−45 30−33
The average gaming FPS of FirePro S7150 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 45% more, than Radeon HD 7870.

Full Specs

  FirePro S7150 Radeon HD 7870
Architecture GCN 3.0 GCN
Code name Tonga Pitcairn XT
Type Workstation Desktop
Release date 1 February 2016 5 March 2012
Pipelines 2048 1280
Core clock speed 920 MHz 1000 MHz
Transistor count 5,000 million 2800 Million
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 28 nm
Texture fill rate 117.8
Floating-point performance 3,763 gflops
Length 241 mm
Memory bus width 256 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 5000 MHz 4800 MHz
Memory bandwidth 160.0 GB/s
Shared memory -
DirectX 12 (12_0) DirectX 11.1, Shader 5.1
Shader Model 6.3
OpenGL 4.6
OpenCL 2.0
Vulkan 1.2.131
Monero / XMR (CryptoNight) 0.39 kh/s
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Decred / DCR (Decred) 0.63 Gh/s
Ethereum / ETH (DaggerHashimoto) 16.6 Mh/s
Zcash / ZEC (Equihash) 145 Sol/s
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