AMD FirePro W5000 vs AMD Radeon R5 230

VS

AMD FirePro W5000

AMD Radeon R5 230

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro W5000 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R5 230 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W5000 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (102.4GB/s vs 10.67GB/s)

608 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R5 230 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 8 months late

Lower TDP (19W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W5000 +533%

1.267 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 230

0.2 TFLOPS

FirePro W5000

VS

Radeon R5 230

Graphics Card

Aug 2012

Release Date

Apr 2014

FirePro

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

667 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

102.4GB/s

Bandwidth

10.67GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

2

-

768

Shading Units

160

48

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

26.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.500 GPixel/s

39.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.000 GTexel/s

-

1267 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

200.0 GFLOPS

79.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

75W

TDP

19W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 2x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

Caicos

Pitcairn LE GL

GPU Variant

Caicos PRO

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.37 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

67 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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