AMD FirePro W5000 vs AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM

VS

AMD FirePro W5000

AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro W5000 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 255 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W5000 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (102.4GB/s vs 73.60GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock930MHz

Lower TDP (65W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W5000 +33%

1.267 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 255 OEM

0.952 TFLOPS

FirePro W5000

VS

Radeon R9 255 OEM

Graphics Card

Aug 2012

Release Date

Dec 2013

FirePro

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

900 MHz

-

Boost Clock

930 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1150 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

102.4GB/s

Bandwidth

73.60GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

8

-

768

Shading Units

512

48

TMUs

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

14.88 GPixel/s

39.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

29.76 GTexel/s

-

1267 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

952.3 GFLOPS

79.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

59.52 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

65W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 2x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

Cape Verde

Pitcairn LE GL

GPU Variant

Cape Verde PRX

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

123 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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