AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs ATI FirePro V5800

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 and 1024MB VRAM FirePro V5800 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6970 's Advantages

Released 8 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

736 additional rendering cores

ATI FirePro V5800 's Advantages

Lower TDP (74W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970 +144%

2.703 TFLOPS

FirePro V5800

1.104 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970

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FirePro V5800

Graphics Card

Dec 2010

Release Date

Apr 2010

Northern Islands

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

24

Compute Units

10

1536

Shading Units

800

96

TMUs

40

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

28.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.04 GPixel/s

84.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

27.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1104 GFLOPS

675.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

Juniper

Cayman XT (215-0807007)

GPU Variant

Juniper XT GL

TeraScale 3

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

1.04 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

166 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

74W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 2x DisplayPort 1.1

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.4

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.0

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