AMD Radeon R9 270 vs AMD FirePro W5000

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270 and 2GB VRAM FirePro W5000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 270 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock925MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 102.4GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro W5000 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 270 +86%

2.368 TFLOPS

FirePro W5000

1.267 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270

VS

FirePro W5000

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Aug 2012

Volcanic Islands

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

-

925 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

102.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

20

Compute Units

12

1280

Shading Units

768

80

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

26.40 GPixel/s

74.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

39.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.368 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1267 GFLOPS

148.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

79.20 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Curacao

GPU Name

Pitcairn

Curacao PRO (215-0848000)

GPU Variant

Pitcairn LE GL

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

75W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 2x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-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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