Radeon HD 6990 vs FirePro V5800
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6990 and 1024MB VRAM FirePro V5800 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon HD 6990 's Advantages
Released 11 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)
736 additional rendering cores
FirePro V5800 's Advantages
Lower TDP (74W vs 375W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 6990
+130%
2550
FirePro V5800
1104
Graphics Card
Mar 2011
Release Date
Apr 2010
Northern Islands
Generation
FirePro
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
160.0GB/s
Bandwidth
64.00GB/s
Render Config
24
Compute Units
10
1536
Shading Units
800
96
TMUs
40
32
ROPs
16
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
512 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
26.56 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
11.04 GPixel/s
79.68 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
27.60 GTexel/s
2.550 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1104 GFLOPS
637.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
375W
TDP
74W
750 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x DVI
2x DisplayPort 1.1
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Antilles
GPU Name
Juniper
Antilles XT
(215-0807027)
GPU Variant
Juniper XT GL
TeraScale 3
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
40 nm
2.64 billion
Transistors
1.04 billion
389 mm²
Die Size
166 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
4.4
OpenGL
4.4
1.2
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
5.0
Shader Model
5.0
