ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs ATI FirePro V7900 SDI
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 and 2GB VRAM FirePro V7900 SDI to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
ATI Radeon HD 5970 's Advantages
320 additional rendering cores
ATI FirePro V7900 SDI 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 6 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)
Lower TDP (150W vs 294W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
ATI Radeon HD 5970
+25%
2.32 TFLOPS
FirePro V7900 SDI
1.856 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2009
Release Date
May 2011
Evergreen
Generation
FirePro
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1000 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
128.0GB/s
Bandwidth
160.0GB/s
Render Config
20
Compute Units
20
-
-
-
1600
Shading Units
1280
80
TMUs
80
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
23.20 GPixel/s
58.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
58.00 GTexel/s
-
-
-
2.320 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1.856 TFLOPS
464.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
464.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
294W
TDP
150W
600 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Outputs
4x SDI
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Hemlock
GPU Name
Cayman
Hemlock XT
(215-0735075)
GPU Variant
Cayman PRO GL
TeraScale 2
Architecture
TeraScale 3
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
40 nm
2.154 billion
Transistors
2.64 billion
334 mm²
Die Size
389 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
