ATI FireGL V8600 vs AMD FirePro W5000
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM FireGL V8600 and 2GB VRAM FirePro W5000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
ATI FireGL V8600 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.1GB/s vs 102.4GB/s)
AMD FirePro W5000 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 3 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
448 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (75W vs 159W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireGL V8600
0.44 TFLOPS
FirePro W5000
+187%
1.267 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
May 2007
Release Date
Aug 2012
FireGL
Generation
FirePro
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
868 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR4
Memory Type
GDDR5
512bit
Memory Bus
256bit
111.1GB/s
Bandwidth
102.4GB/s
Render Config
4
Compute Units
12
-
-
-
320
Shading Units
768
16
TMUs
48
16
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
256 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
11.01 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
26.40 GPixel/s
11.01 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
39.60 GTexel/s
-
-
-
440.3 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1267 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
79.20 GFLOPS
Board Design
159W
TDP
75W
450 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
1x DisplayPort
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x DVI
2x DisplayPort 1.2
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
R600
GPU Name
Pitcairn
R600 V8600
GPU Variant
Pitcairn LE GL
TeraScale
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.72 billion
Transistors
2.8 billion
420 mm²
Die Size
212 mm²
Graphics Features
10.0 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
OpenGL
4.6
N/A
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
-
-
-
4.0
Shader Model
5.1
