ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs AMD FirePro W7000
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Nov 2009
Jun 2012
Generation
Evergreen
FirePro
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
1024MB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
128.0GB/s
153.6GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
20
20
Shading Units
1600
1280
TMUs
80
80
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
512 KB
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
23.20 GPixel/s
30.40 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
58.00 GTexel/s
76.00 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.320 TFLOPS
2.432 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
464.0 GFLOPS
152.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Hemlock
Pitcairn
GPU Variant
Hemlock XT(215-0735075)
Pitcairn XT GL(215-0828073)
Architecture
TeraScale 2
GCN 1.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
40 nm
28 nm
Transistors
2.154 billion
2.8 billion
Die Size
334 mm²
212 mm²
Board Design
TDP
294W
150W
Suggested PSU
600 W
450 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
4x DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
1x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
1.2
Shader Model
5.0
5.1