ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs AMD FirePro W600

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

AMD FirePro W600

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 and 2GB VRAM FirePro W600 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 5970 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

1088 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro W600 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Lower TDP (75W vs 294W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

ATI Radeon HD 5970 +202%

2.32 TFLOPS

FirePro W600

0.768 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

VS

FirePro W600

Graphics Card

Nov 2009

Release Date

Jun 2012

Evergreen

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

8

-

1600

Shading Units

512

80

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.00 GPixel/s

58.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

24.00 GTexel/s

-

2.320 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

768.0 GFLOPS

464.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

48.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

294W

TDP

75W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Hemlock

GPU Name

Cape Verde

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

GPU Variant

Cape Verde PRO GL

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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