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Radeon R9 295X2 vs FirePro R5000

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 and 2GB VRAM FirePro R5000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

Radeon R9 295X2 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 2 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 102.4GB/s)
2048 additional rendering cores
FirePro R5000 's Advantages
Lower TDP (150W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 295X2 +352%
5733
FirePro R5000
1267

Graphics Card

Apr 2014
Release Date
Feb 2013
Volcanic Islands
Generation
FirePro Remote
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1250 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz

Memory

4GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
512bit
Memory Bus
256bit
320.0GB/s
Bandwidth
102.4GB/s

Render Config

44
Compute Units
12
2816
Shading Units
768
176
TMUs
48
64
ROPs
32
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB

Theoretical Performance

65.15 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
26.40 GPixel/s
179.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
39.60 GTexel/s
5.733 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1267 GFLOPS
716.7 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
79.20 GFLOPS

Board Design

500W
TDP
150W
900 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Vesuvius
GPU Name
Pitcairn
Vesuvius XT (215-0852022)
GPU Variant
Pitcairn LE GL
GCN 2.0
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
6.2 billion
Transistors
2.8 billion
438 mm²
Die Size
212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.0
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
Vulkan
1.2
6.3
Shader Model
5.1
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