AMD FirePro W5000 vs ATI Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL

VS

AMD FirePro W5000

ATI Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro W5000 and 512MB VRAM Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W5000 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (102.4GB/s vs 44.16GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (75W vs 130W)

Score

FirePro W5000

VS

Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL

Graphics Card

Aug 2012

Release Date

Jan 2007

FirePro

Generation

Radeon R500 PCIe

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

690 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

102.4GB/s

Bandwidth

44.16GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

768

Shading Units

-

48

TMUs

12

32

ROPs

12

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

26.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.900 GPixel/s

39.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.900 GTexel/s

-

1267 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

79.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

75W

TDP

130W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 2x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

RV570

Pitcairn LE GL

GPU Variant

RV570 XT (215PADAKA12FG)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

R500

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.33 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

230 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.1 (full) 3.0 (partial)

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.1

Shader Model

3.0

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