AMD FirePro W5100 vs AMD Radeon HD 6970

VS

AMD FirePro W5100

AMD Radeon HD 6970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM FirePro W5100 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W5100 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Lower TDP (50W vs 250W)

AMD Radeon HD 6970 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W5100

1.428 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970 +89%

2.703 TFLOPS

FirePro W5100

VS

Radeon HD 6970

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Dec 2010

FirePro

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

24

-

768

Shading Units

1536

48

TMUs

96

16

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

14.88 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.16 GPixel/s

44.64 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

84.48 GTexel/s

-

1428 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.703 TFLOPS

89.28 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

675.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

250W

250 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

4x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

Cayman

Bonaire PRO GL

GPU Variant

Cayman XT (215-0807007)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 3

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

2.64 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

389 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.0

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.3

Shader Model

5.0

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