AMD FirePro W5000 vs ATI Radeon HD 4870

VS

AMD FirePro W5000

ATI Radeon HD 4870

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro W5000 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W5000 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Lower TDP (75W vs 150W)

ATI Radeon HD 4870 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 102.4GB/s)

32 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W5000 +5%

1.267 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4870

1.2 TFLOPS

FirePro W5000

VS

Radeon HD 4870

Graphics Card

Aug 2012

Release Date

Jun 2008

FirePro

Generation

Radeon R700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

102.4GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

10

-

768

Shading Units

800

48

TMUs

40

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

12.00 GPixel/s

39.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

30.00 GTexel/s

-

1267 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1200 GFLOPS

79.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

240.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

150W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 2x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

RV770

Pitcairn LE GL

GPU Variant

RV770 XT (215-0669049)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.956 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

256 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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