ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition vs AMD FirePro W4000

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

AMD FirePro W4000

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM FirePro W4000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.0GB/s vs 102.4GB/s)

832 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro W4000 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Lower TDP (75W vs 228W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition +114%

2.72 TFLOPS

FirePro W4000

1.267 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

VS

FirePro W4000

Graphics Card

Jun 2010

Release Date

Aug 2012

Evergreen

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1195 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

153.0GB/s

Bandwidth

102.4GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

12

-

1600

Shading Units

768

80

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

32

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

26.40 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

39.60 GTexel/s

-

2.720 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1267 GFLOPS

544.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

79.20 GFLOPS

Board Design

228W

TDP

75W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

1x DVI 2x DisplayPort 1.2

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

Pitcairn

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GPU Variant

Pitcairn LE GL

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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