AMD FirePro W5100 vs AMD Radeon R9 270

VS

AMD FirePro W5100

AMD Radeon R9 270

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM FirePro W5100 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W5100 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Lower TDP (50W vs 150W)

AMD Radeon R9 270 's Advantages

Boost Clock925MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W5100

1.428 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270 +65%

2.368 TFLOPS

FirePro W5100

VS

Radeon R9 270

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Nov 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

925 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

179.2GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

20

-

768

Shading Units

1280

48

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

14.88 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

44.64 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

74.00 GTexel/s

-

1428 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.368 TFLOPS

89.28 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

148.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

150W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

4x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

Curacao

Bonaire PRO GL

GPU Variant

Curacao PRO (215-0848000)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.3

Shader Model

5.1

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