AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT vs AMD FirePro W5000

VS

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

AMD FirePro W5000

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6950 XT and 2GB VRAM FirePro W5000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock2310MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (576.0GB/s vs 102.4GB/s)

4352 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro W5000 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 335W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6950 XT +1766%

23.65 TFLOPS

FirePro W5000

1.267 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

VS

FirePro W5000

Graphics Card

May 2022

Release Date

Aug 2012

Navi II

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1860 MHz

Base Clock

-

2310 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2250 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

576.0GB/s

Bandwidth

102.4GB/s

Render Config

80

Compute Units

12

-

5120

Shading Units

768

320

TMUs

48

128

ROPs

32

-

80

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

128 MB

L3 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

295.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

26.40 GPixel/s

739.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

39.60 GTexel/s

47.31 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

23.65 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1267 GFLOPS

1478 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

79.20 GFLOPS

Board Design

335W

TDP

75W

700 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.1 2x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 2x DisplayPort 1.2

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Navi 21

GPU Name

Pitcairn

Navi 21 KXTX (215-121000289)

GPU Variant

Pitcairn LE GL

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

28 nm

26.8 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.5

Shader Model

5.1

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