ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs ATI FirePro V7900 SDI

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ATI Radeon HD 5970 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 1GB)

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

ATI Radeon HD 5970

VS

FirePro V7900 SDI

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

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

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

-

SM Count

-

20

Compute Units

20

1600

Shading Units

1280

80

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

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

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.320 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.856 TFLOPS

464.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

464.0 GFLOPS

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

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 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

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.0

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