AMD FirePro W5000 vs AMD Radeon HD 6790

VS

AMD FirePro W5000

AMD Radeon HD 6790

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro W5000 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6790 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W5000 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Lower TDP (75W vs 150W)

AMD Radeon HD 6790 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 102.4GB/s)

32 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W5000

1.267 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6790 +6%

1.344 TFLOPS

FirePro W5000

VS

Radeon HD 6790

Graphics Card

Aug 2012

Release Date

Apr 2011

FirePro

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1050 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

102.4GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

10

-

768

Shading Units

800

48

TMUs

40

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

26.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

13.44 GPixel/s

39.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.60 GTexel/s

-

1267 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1344 GFLOPS

79.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

75W

TDP

150W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 2x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

Barts

Pitcairn LE GL

GPU Variant

Barts LE (215-0798002)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

255 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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