AMD FirePro W5000 vs ATI Radeon HD 4860

VS

AMD FirePro W5000

ATI Radeon HD 4860

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro W5000 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4860 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 11 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (102.4GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

128 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (75W vs 130W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W5000 +41%

1.267 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4860

0.896 TFLOPS

FirePro W5000

VS

Radeon HD 4860

Graphics Card

Aug 2012

Release Date

Sep 2009

FirePro

Generation

Radeon R700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

102.4GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

8

-

768

Shading Units

640

48

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

26.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.20 GPixel/s

39.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

22.40 GTexel/s

-

1267 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

896.0 GFLOPS

79.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

179.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

130W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 2x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

RV790

Pitcairn LE GL

GPU Variant

RV790 GT

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.959 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

282 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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