AMD Radeon Pro WX 5100 vs AMD Radeon HD 7970

VS

AMD Radeon Pro WX 5100

AMD Radeon HD 7970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro WX 5100 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 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 4 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1086MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (75W vs 250W)

AMD Radeon HD 7970 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro WX 5100 +2%

3.892 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970

3.789 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro WX 5100

VS

Radeon HD 7970

Graphics Card

Nov 2016

Release Date

Dec 2011

Radeon Pro

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

713 MHz

Base Clock

-

1086 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

160.0GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

32

-

1792

Shading Units

2048

112

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

34.75 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

121.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

3.892 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.892 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

243.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

947.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

250W

250 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

Tahiti

Polaris 10 PRO GL (215-0876144)

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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