ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs ATI FirePro V9800

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

ATI FirePro V9800

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 and 4GB VRAM FirePro V9800 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI FirePro V9800 's Advantages

Released 10 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (147.2GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (250W vs 294W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

ATI Radeon HD 5970

2.32 TFLOPS

FirePro V9800 +17%

2.72 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

VS

FirePro V9800

Graphics Card

Nov 2009

Release Date

Sep 2010

Evergreen

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1150 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

147.2GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

20

-

1600

Shading Units

1600

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

27.20 GPixel/s

58.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

-

2.320 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.720 TFLOPS

464.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

544.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

294W

TDP

250W

600 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

2x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Hemlock

GPU Name

Cypress

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

GPU Variant

Cypress XT 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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