AMD Radeon HD 6990 vs AMD FirePro W5000 DVI

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6990

AMD FirePro W5000 DVI

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6990 and 2GB VRAM FirePro W5000 DVI to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6990 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 102.4GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro W5000 DVI 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 11 months late

Lower TDP (75W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6990 +101%

2.55 TFLOPS

FirePro W5000 DVI

1.267 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6990

VS

FirePro W5000 DVI

Graphics Card

Mar 2011

Release Date

Feb 2013

Northern Islands

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

160.0GB/s

Bandwidth

102.4GB/s

Render Config

24

Compute Units

12

-

1536

Shading Units

768

96

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

32

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

26.56 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

26.40 GPixel/s

79.68 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

39.60 GTexel/s

-

2.550 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1267 GFLOPS

637.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

79.20 GFLOPS

Board Design

375W

TDP

75W

750 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Antilles

GPU Name

Pitcairn

Antilles XT (215-0807027)

GPU Variant

Pitcairn LE GL

TeraScale 3

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

389 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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