AMD Radeon R9 290 vs AMD FirePro W5000 DVI

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 and 2GB VRAM FirePro W5000 DVI to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290 's Advantages

Released 9 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 102.4GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro W5000 DVI 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290 +282%

4.849 TFLOPS

FirePro W5000 DVI

1.267 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290

VS

FirePro W5000 DVI

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Feb 2013

Volcanic Islands

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

102.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

40

Compute Units

12

2560

Shading Units

768

160

TMUs

48

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

60.61 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

26.40 GPixel/s

151.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

39.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

4.849 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1267 GFLOPS

606.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

79.20 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

Pitcairn

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

GPU Variant

Pitcairn LE GL

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

275W

TDP

75W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.3

Shader Model

5.1

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