ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs AMD FirePro W8100

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

AMD FirePro W8100

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 and 8GB VRAM FirePro W8100 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W8100 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

960 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (220W vs 294W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

ATI Radeon HD 5970

2.32 TFLOPS

FirePro W8100 +81%

4.219 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

VS

FirePro W8100

Graphics Card

Nov 2009

Release Date

Jun 2014

Evergreen

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

40

-

1600

Shading Units

2560

80

TMUs

160

32

ROPs

64

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

52.74 GPixel/s

58.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

131.8 GTexel/s

-

2.320 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.219 TFLOPS

464.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

2.109 TFLOPS

Board Design

294W

TDP

220W

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

Hawaii

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

GPU Variant

Hawaii GL40

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.3

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