AMD Radeon Pro WX 5100 vs AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2

VS

AMD Radeon Pro WX 5100

AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro WX 5100 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro WX 5100 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1086MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

672 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (75W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro WX 5100 +93%

3.892 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870 X2

2.016 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro WX 5100

VS

Radeon HD 6870 X2

Graphics Card

Nov 2016

Release Date

Jul 2011

Radeon Pro

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

713 MHz

Base Clock

-

1086 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1050 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

160.0GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

14

-

1792

Shading Units

1120

112

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

34.75 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

121.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

50.40 GTexel/s

3.892 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.892 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.016 TFLOPS

243.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

75W

TDP

300W

250 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

Barts

Polaris 10 PRO GL (215-0876144)

GPU Variant

Barts XT (215-0798000)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

255 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.0

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