ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs ATI FirePro V7800

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

ATI FirePro V7800

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 and 2GB VRAM FirePro V7800 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 5970 's Advantages

160 additional rendering cores

ATI FirePro V7800 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Lower TDP (150W vs 294W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

ATI Radeon HD 5970 +15%

2.32 TFLOPS

FirePro V7800

2.016 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

VS

FirePro V7800

Graphics Card

Nov 2009

Release Date

Apr 2010

Evergreen

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

18

-

1600

Shading Units

1440

80

TMUs

72

32

ROPs

32

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

22.40 GPixel/s

58.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

50.40 GTexel/s

-

2.320 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.016 TFLOPS

464.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

403.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

294W

TDP

150W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

1x DVI 2x DisplayPort 1.1

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Hemlock

GPU Name

Cypress

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

GPU Variant

Cypress PRO GL

TeraScale 2

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

334 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

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