AMD FirePro W5000 vs AMD Radeon R9 290

VS

AMD FirePro W5000

AMD Radeon R9 290

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro W5000 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 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 275W)

AMD Radeon R9 290 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 102.4GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W5000

1.267 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290 +282%

4.849 TFLOPS

FirePro W5000

VS

Radeon R9 290

Graphics Card

Aug 2012

Release Date

Nov 2013

FirePro

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

102.4GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

40

-

768

Shading Units

2560

48

TMUs

160

32

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

26.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

60.61 GPixel/s

39.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

151.5 GTexel/s

-

1267 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.849 TFLOPS

79.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

606.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

275W

250 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 2x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

Hawaii

Pitcairn LE GL

GPU Variant

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.3

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