AMD FirePro W5000 vs AMD Radeon HD 7970

VS

AMD FirePro W5000

AMD Radeon HD 7970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro W5000 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W5000 's Advantages

Released 8 months late

Lower TDP (75W vs 250W)

AMD Radeon HD 7970 's Advantages

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 102.4GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W5000

1.267 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 +199%

3.789 TFLOPS

FirePro W5000

VS

Radeon HD 7970

Graphics Card

Aug 2012

Release Date

Dec 2011

FirePro

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

102.4GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

32

-

768

Shading Units

2048

48

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

26.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

39.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

-

1267 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

79.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

947.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

250W

250 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 2x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

Tahiti

Pitcairn LE GL

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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