AMD FirePro S9050 vs ATI Radeon HD 5970

VS

AMD FirePro S9050

ATI Radeon HD 5970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM FirePro S9050 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 S9050 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (12GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

192 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (225W vs 294W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro S9050 +39%

3.226 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

2.32 TFLOPS

FirePro S9050

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

Graphics Card

Aug 2014

Release Date

Nov 2009

FirePro

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

20

-

1792

Shading Units

1600

112

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.20 GPixel/s

100.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

58.00 GTexel/s

-

3.226 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.320 TFLOPS

806.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

464.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

225W

TDP

294W

550 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Hemlock

Tahiti PRO GL

GPU Variant

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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