GPU Comparison
RADEON
AMD FirePro W5000
CORE STATE
Pitcairn
VRAM
2 GB
CLOCK SPEED
—
TDP
75 W
BUS WIDTH
256 bit
ARCHITECTURE
GCN 1.0
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2012
VS
RADEON
Radeon RX 480
CORE STATE
Ellesmere
VRAM
8 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1266 MHz
TDP
150 W
BUS WIDTH
256 bit
ARCHITECTURE
GCN 4.0
PROCESS
14 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2016
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
geekbench_opencl
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_metal
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
FirePro W5000
RX 480
Core Specs
Shading Units
768
2,304
+200.0%
Shaders
768
2,304
+200.0%
TMUs
48
144
+200.0%
ROPs
32
32
0.0%
Compute Units
12
36
+200.0%
Clocks
Base Clock
—
1120 MHz
Boost Clock
—
1266 MHz
GPU Clock
825 MHz
—
Memory Clock
800 MHz
3.2 Gbps effective
2000 MHz
8 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
2 GB
8 GB
VRAM (MB)
2,048
8,192
+300.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256 bit
256 bit
Bandwidth
102.4 GB/s
256.0 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
512 KB
2 MB
Performance
Pixel Rate
26.40 GPixel/s
40.51 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
39.60 GTexel/s
182.3 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
1,267.2 GFLOPS
5.834 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
79.20 GFLOPS (1:16)
364.6 GFLOPS (1:16)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
—
5.834 TFLOPS (1:1)
Power
TDP
75 W
150 W
TDP (W)
75
150
+100.0%
Suggested PSU
250 W
450 W
Power Connectors
None
1x 6-pin
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 1.0
GCN 4.0
GPU Name
Pitcairn
Ellesmere
Generation
FirePro GCN
(Wx000)
Arctic Islands
(RX 400)
Process Size
28 nm
14 nm
Transistors
2,800 million
5,700 million
Die Size
212 mm²
232 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
GlobalFoundries
Density
13.2M / mm²
24.6M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
1.2.170
1.3
OpenCL
2.1 (1.2)
2.1
Shader Model
6.5 (5.1)
6.7
Physical
Slot Width
Single-slot
Dual-slot
Length
183 mm
7.2 inches
240 mm
9.4 inches
Height
111 mm
4.4 inches
95 mm
3.7 inches
Outputs
1x DVI2x DisplayPort 1.2
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Other
Launch Price
599 USD
229 USD
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
FirePro Terascale
Pirate Islands
Successor
Radeon Pro Polaris
Polaris