AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition vs ATI FirePro V5800

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

ATI FirePro V5800

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition and 1024MB VRAM FirePro V5800 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1050MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

1248 additional rendering cores

ATI FirePro V5800 's Advantages

Lower TDP (74W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition +289%

4.301 TFLOPS

FirePro V5800

1.104 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

VS

FirePro V5800

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Apr 2010

Southern Islands

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

-

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

10

-

2048

Shading Units

800

128

TMUs

40

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

33.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.04 GPixel/s

134.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

27.60 GTexel/s

-

4.301 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1104 GFLOPS

1075 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

300W

TDP

74W

700 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 2x DisplayPort 1.1

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Juniper

Tahiti XT2 (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

Juniper XT GL

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

1.04 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

166 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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