ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs AMD FirePro W8000
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 and 4GB VRAM FirePro W8000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FirePro W8000 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 7 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)
192 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (225W vs 294W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
ATI Radeon HD 5970
2.32 TFLOPS
FirePro W8000
+39%
3.226 TFLOPS
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
1375 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
128.0GB/s
Bandwidth
176.0GB/s
Render Config
20
Compute Units
28
-
-
-
1600
Shading Units
1792
80
TMUs
112
32
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
512 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
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-
-
Theoretical Performance
23.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
28.80 GPixel/s
58.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
100.8 GTexel/s
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-
-
2.320 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.226 TFLOPS
464.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
806.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
294W
TDP
225W
600 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
2x DVI
1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.2
1x SDI
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Hemlock
GPU Name
Tahiti
Hemlock XT
(215-0735075)
GPU Variant
Tahiti PRO GL
TeraScale 2
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
28 nm
2.154 billion
Transistors
4.313 billion
334 mm²
Die Size
352 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
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5.0
Shader Model
5.1
