AMD FirePro W5000 vs ATI Radeon HD 5970

VS

AMD FirePro W5000

ATI Radeon HD 5970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro W5000 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 W5000 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Lower TDP (75W vs 294W)

ATI Radeon HD 5970 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 102.4GB/s)

832 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W5000

1.267 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970 +83%

2.32 TFLOPS

FirePro W5000

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

Graphics Card

Aug 2012

Release Date

Nov 2009

FirePro

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

102.4GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

20

-

768

Shading Units

1600

48

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

26.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.20 GPixel/s

39.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

58.00 GTexel/s

-

1267 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.320 TFLOPS

79.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

464.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

294W

250 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 2x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

Hemlock

Pitcairn LE GL

GPU Variant

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

212 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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