AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs AMD FirePro V5900

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6970

AMD FirePro V5900

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 and 2GB VRAM FirePro V5900 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6970 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro V5900 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970 +340%

2.703 TFLOPS

FirePro V5900

0.614 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970

VS

FirePro V5900

Graphics Card

Dec 2010

Release Date

May 2011

Northern Islands

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

24

Compute Units

8

-

1536

Shading Units

512

96

TMUs

32

ROPs

32

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.20 GPixel/s

84.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

19.20 GTexel/s

-

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

614.4 GFLOPS

675.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

153.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

75W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DVI

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

Cayman

Cayman XT (215-0807007)

GPU Variant

Cayman LE WS

TeraScale 3

Architecture

TeraScale 3

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

2.64 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

389 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.4

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.0

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