AMD FirePro W8000 vs ATI Radeon HD 5950

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM FirePro W8000 and 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5950 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W8000 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

352 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (225W vs 302W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W8000 +54%

3.226 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5950

2.088 TFLOPS

FirePro W8000

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5950

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Unknown

FirePro

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

28

Compute Units

18

1792

Shading Units

1440

112

TMUs

72

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

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.20 GPixel/s

100.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

52.20 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.226 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.088 TFLOPS

806.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Hemlock

Tahiti PRO GL

GPU Variant

Hemlock PRO

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Board Design

225W

TDP

302W

550 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

4x DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

Outputs

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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