ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition vs AMD FirePro S7000
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition and 4GB VRAM FirePro S7000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition 's Advantages
320 additional rendering cores
AMD FirePro S7000 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 2 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 153.0GB/s)
Lower TDP (150W vs 228W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition
+11%
2.72 TFLOPS
FirePro S7000
2.432 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jun 2010
Release Date
Aug 2012
Evergreen
Generation
FirePro
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1195 MHz
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
153.0GB/s
Bandwidth
153.6GB/s
Render Config
20
Compute Units
20
-
-
-
1600
Shading Units
1280
80
TMUs
80
32
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
512 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
27.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
30.40 GPixel/s
68.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
76.00 GTexel/s
-
-
-
2.720 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.432 TFLOPS
544.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
152.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
228W
TDP
150W
550 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Outputs
1x DisplayPort 1.2
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Cypress
GPU Name
Pitcairn
Cypress XT
(215-0735033)
GPU Variant
Pitcairn XT GL
(215-0828073)
TeraScale 2
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
28 nm
2.154 billion
Transistors
2.8 billion
334 mm²
Die Size
212 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
4.4
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
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-
-
5.0
Shader Model
5.1
