AMD FirePro W5000 vs AMD Radeon RX 580

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro W5000 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W5000 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 185W)

AMD Radeon RX 580 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1340MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 102.4GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W5000

1.267 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580 +387%

6.175 TFLOPS

FirePro W5000

VS

Radeon RX 580

Graphics Card

Aug 2012

Release Date

Apr 2017

FirePro

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1257 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1340 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

102.4GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

12

Compute Units

36

768

Shading Units

2304

48

TMUs

144

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

26.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

42.88 GPixel/s

39.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

193.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

6.175 TFLOPS

1267 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.175 TFLOPS

79.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

385.9 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

Polaris 20

Pitcairn LE GL

GPU Variant

Polaris 20 XTX (215-0910038)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

185W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 2x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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