AMD FirePro R5000 vs ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition

VS

AMD FirePro R5000

ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro R5000 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro R5000 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (102.4GB/s vs 72.06GB/s)

448 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (106W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro R5000 +154%

1.267 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition

0.497 TFLOPS

FirePro R5000

VS

Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Feb 2013

Release Date

Jun 2008

FirePro Remote

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1126 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR4

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

102.4GB/s

Bandwidth

72.06GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

4

-

768

Shading Units

320

48

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

26.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.43 GPixel/s

39.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.43 GTexel/s

-

1267 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

497.3 GFLOPS

79.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

99.46 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

106W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

RV670

Pitcairn LE GL

GPU Variant

RV670 XT (215-0708005)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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