ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT vs AMD FirePro W5000

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 2900 XT and 2GB VRAM FirePro W5000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (106.0GB/s vs 102.4GB/s)

AMD FirePro W5000 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 3 months late

448 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (75W vs 215W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 2900 XT

0.476 TFLOPS

FirePro W5000 +166%

1.267 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2900 XT

VS

FirePro W5000

Graphics Card

May 2007

Release Date

Aug 2012

Radeon R600

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

828 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

106.0GB/s

Bandwidth

102.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

4

Compute Units

12

320

Shading Units

768

16

TMUs

48

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

11.89 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

26.40 GPixel/s

11.89 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

39.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

475.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1267 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

79.20 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

R600

GPU Name

Pitcairn

R600 XT (215RGMDKA13FG)

GPU Variant

Pitcairn LE GL

TeraScale

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.72 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

420 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

215W

TDP

75W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 2x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

10.0 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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