AMD FirePro W5000 vs ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT

VS

AMD FirePro W5000

ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro W5000 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 2900 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W5000 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

448 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (75W vs 215W)

ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (106.0GB/s vs 102.4GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W5000 +166%

1.267 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2900 XT

0.476 TFLOPS

FirePro W5000

VS

Radeon HD 2900 XT

Graphics Card

Aug 2012

Release Date

May 2007

FirePro

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

828 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

102.4GB/s

Bandwidth

106.0GB/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

11.89 GPixel/s

39.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

11.89 GTexel/s

-

1267 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

475.5 GFLOPS

79.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

75W

TDP

215W

250 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x DVI 2x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

R600

Pitcairn LE GL

GPU Variant

R600 XT (215RGMDKA13FG)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.72 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

420 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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