AMD FirePro RG220A vs ATI Radeon HD 5970

VS

AMD FirePro RG220A

ATI Radeon HD 5970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM FirePro RG220A and 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro RG220A 's Advantages

Released 6 months late

Lower TDP (35W vs 294W)

ATI Radeon HD 5970 's Advantages

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

1520 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro RG220A

0.08 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970 +2800%

2.32 TFLOPS

FirePro RG220A

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

Graphics Card

May 2010

Release Date

Nov 2009

FirePro Remote

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

51.20GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

1

Compute Units

20

-

80

Shading Units

1600

8

TMUs

80

4

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

-

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.20 GPixel/s

4.000 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

58.00 GTexel/s

-

80.00 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.320 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

464.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

35W

TDP

294W

200 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

M93

GPU Name

Hemlock

-

GPU Variant

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

TeraScale

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.242 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

73 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.4

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

4.1

Shader Model

5.0

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