ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition vs AMD FirePro W9000

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ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition AMD FirePro W9000

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition and 6GB VRAM FirePro W9000 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

Lower TDP (228W vs 274W)

AMD FirePro W9000 's Advantages

Released 2 years late

More VRAM (6GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 153.0GB/s)

448 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

2.72 TFLOPS

FirePro W9000 +46%

3.994 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

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FirePro W9000

Graphics Card

Jun 2010

Release Date

Jun 2012

Evergreen

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1195 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

153.0GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

20

Compute Units

32

1600

Shading Units

2048

80

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.20 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

124.8 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

-

2.720 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.994 TFLOPS

544.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

998.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

Tahiti

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT GL

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

228W

TDP

274W

550 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

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

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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