AMD FirePro W5000 vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

VS

AMD FirePro W5000 AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

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

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W5000 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 300W)

AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition 's Advantages

Boost Clock1050MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 102.4GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W5000

1.267 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition +239%

4.301 TFLOPS

FirePro W5000

VS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

Graphics Card

Aug 2012

Release Date

Jun 2012

FirePro

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1000 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1050 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

102.4GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

12

Compute Units

32

768

Shading Units

2048

48

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

26.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.60 GPixel/s

39.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

134.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1267 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.301 TFLOPS

79.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1075 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

Tahiti

Pitcairn LE GL

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT2 (215-0821065)

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

Board Design

75W

TDP

300W

250 W

Suggested PSU

700 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 Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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