ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs AMD FirePro RG220A

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

AMD FirePro RG220A

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 and 512MB VRAM FirePro RG220A to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 5970 's Advantages

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

1520 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro RG220A 's Advantages

Released 6 months late

Lower TDP (35W vs 294W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

ATI Radeon HD 5970 +2800%

2.32 TFLOPS

FirePro RG220A

0.08 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

VS

FirePro RG220A

Graphics Card

Nov 2009

Release Date

May 2010

Evergreen

Generation

FirePro Remote

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

51.20GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

1

-

1600

Shading Units

80

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.000 GPixel/s

58.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.000 GTexel/s

-

2.320 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

80.00 GFLOPS

464.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

294W

TDP

35W

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

1x DVI

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Hemlock

GPU Name

M93

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale 2

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

0.242 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

73 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.0

Shader Model

4.1

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