AMD Radeon HD 7970 vs AMD FirePro W5100

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7970

AMD FirePro W5100

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

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro W5100 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (50W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970 +165%

3.789 TFLOPS

FirePro W5100

1.428 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970

VS

FirePro W5100

Graphics Card

Dec 2011

Release Date

Mar 2014

Southern Islands

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

12

-

2048

Shading Units

768

128

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

14.88 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

44.64 GTexel/s

-

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1428 GFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

89.28 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

50W

600 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 Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Bonaire

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

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

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.3

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