AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2 vs AMD FirePro W5100

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2

AMD FirePro W5100

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 X2 and 4GB VRAM FirePro W5100 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro W5100 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Lower TDP (50W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970 X2 +89%

2.703 TFLOPS

FirePro W5100

1.428 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970 X2

VS

FirePro W5100

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Mar 2014

Northern Islands

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

24

Compute Units

12

-

1536

Shading Units

768

96

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

16

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

14.88 GPixel/s

84.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

44.64 GTexel/s

-

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1428 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

89.28 GFLOPS

Board Design

375W

TDP

50W

750 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.2

3x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Antilles

GPU Name

Bonaire

Antilles XT (215-0807027)

GPU Variant

Bonaire PRO GL

TeraScale 3

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.3

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