ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs AMD FirePro S7150 x2

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 and 8GB VRAM FirePro S7150 x2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro S7150 x2 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

192 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (265W vs 294W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

ATI Radeon HD 5970

2.32 TFLOPS

FirePro S7150 x2 +42%

3.297 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

VS

FirePro S7150 x2

Graphics Card

Nov 2009

Release Date

Feb 2016

Evergreen

Generation

FirePro Server

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

20

Compute Units

28

1600

Shading Units

1792

80

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.44 GPixel/s

58.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

103.0 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

3.297 TFLOPS

2.320 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.297 TFLOPS

464.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

206.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Hemlock

GPU Name

Tonga

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

GPU Variant

Cloudy Tau

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

5 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

366 mm²

Board Design

294W

TDP

265W

600 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

2x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2.170

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.5

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