ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 vs AMD FirePro W5000

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 X2 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 4870 X2 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 102.4GB/s)

32 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro W5000 's Advantages

Released 4 years late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Lower TDP (75W vs 286W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 4870 X2

1.2 TFLOPS

FirePro W5000 +5%

1.267 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4870 X2

VS

FirePro W5000

Graphics Card

Aug 2008

Release Date

Aug 2012

Radeon R700

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

102.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

10

Compute Units

12

800

Shading Units

768

40

TMUs

48

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

12.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

26.40 GPixel/s

30.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

39.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1200 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1267 GFLOPS

240.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

79.20 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

R700

GPU Name

Pitcairn

R700 XT (215-0669045)

GPU Variant

Pitcairn LE GL

TeraScale

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.956 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

256 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

286W

TDP

75W

600 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

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

4.1

Shader Model

5.1

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