AMD FirePro W9100 vs ATI Radeon HD 5970

VS

AMD FirePro W9100

ATI Radeon HD 5970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM FirePro W9100 and 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W9100 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (16GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

1216 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (275W vs 294W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W9100 +125%

5.238 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

2.32 TFLOPS

FirePro W9100

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Nov 2009

FirePro

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

20

-

2816

Shading Units

1600

176

TMUs

80

64

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

59.52 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.20 GPixel/s

163.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

58.00 GTexel/s

-

5.238 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.320 TFLOPS

2.619 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

464.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

275W

TDP

294W

600 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

Hemlock

Hawaii GL44

GPU Variant

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

334 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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