ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs AMD FirePro S9300 X2

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

AMD FirePro S9300 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 and 4GB VRAM FirePro S9300 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 5970 's Advantages

Lower TDP (294W vs 300W)

AMD FirePro S9300 X2 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

2496 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

ATI Radeon HD 5970

2.32 TFLOPS

FirePro S9300 X2 +244%

7.987 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

VS

FirePro S9300 X2

Graphics Card

Nov 2009

Release Date

Mar 2016

Evergreen

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM

256bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

64

-

1600

Shading Units

4096

80

TMUs

256

32

ROPs

64

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

62.40 GPixel/s

58.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

249.6 GTexel/s

-

2.320 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.987 TFLOPS

464.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

499.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

294W

TDP

300W

600 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

2x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Hemlock

GPU Name

Capsaicin

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

GPU Variant

Capsaicin XT

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

8.9 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

596 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.0

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