AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition vs AMD FirePro W5100

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AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition AMD FirePro W5100

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

Boost Clock1050MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro W5100 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (50W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition +201%

4.301 TFLOPS

FirePro W5100

1.428 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

VS

FirePro W5100

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Mar 2014

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

1500 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

32

Compute Units

12

2048

Shading Units

768

128

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

33.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

14.88 GPixel/s

134.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

44.64 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

4.301 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1428 GFLOPS

1075 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

89.28 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Bonaire

Tahiti XT2 (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

Bonaire PRO GL

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

50W

700 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.3

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