AMD FirePro W7100 vs ATI Radeon HD 5870

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM FirePro W7100 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W7100 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

192 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 188W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W7100 +21%

3.297 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870

2.72 TFLOPS

FirePro W7100

VS

Radeon HD 5870

Graphics Card

Aug 2014

Release Date

Sep 2009

FirePro

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

160.0GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

28

Compute Units

20

1792

Shading Units

1600

112

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

29.44 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

103.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

3.297 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.297 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.720 TFLOPS

206.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

544.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tonga

GPU Name

Cypress

Tonga PRO GL

GPU Variant

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GCN 3.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

366 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

188W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

4x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.0

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.3

Shader Model

5.0

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