AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition vs AMD FirePro W5000 DVI

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AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition AMD FirePro W5000 DVI

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition 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 7970 GHz Edition 's Advantages

Boost Clock1050MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 102.4GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro W5000 DVI 's Advantages

Released 8 months late

Lower TDP (75W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition +239%

4.301 TFLOPS

FirePro W5000 DVI

1.267 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

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FirePro W5000 DVI

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Feb 2013

Southern Islands

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

-

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

102.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

32

Compute Units

12

2048

Shading Units

768

128

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

33.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

26.40 GPixel/s

134.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

39.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

4.301 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1267 GFLOPS

1075 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

79.20 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Pitcairn

Tahiti XT2 (215-0821065)

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

Board Design

300W

TDP

75W

700 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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