AMD Radeon HD 7950 Boost vs AMD FirePro W5000

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Boost

AMD FirePro W5000

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Boost and 2GB VRAM FirePro W5000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Boost 's Advantages

Boost Clock925MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 102.4GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro W5000 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7950 Boost +161%

3.315 TFLOPS

FirePro W5000

1.267 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950 Boost

VS

FirePro W5000

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Aug 2012

Southern Islands

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

-

925 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

102.4GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

12

-

1792

Shading Units

768

112

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

26.40 GPixel/s

103.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

39.60 GTexel/s

-

3.315 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1267 GFLOPS

828.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

79.20 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

75W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 2x DisplayPort 1.2

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Pitcairn

Tahiti PRO2 (215-0821282)

GPU Variant

Pitcairn LE GL

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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