FirePro W5000 and Polaris 21 - video card comparison

FirePro W5000

Polaris 21

Architecture

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)

GPU code name

Pitcairn

Polaris 21

Market segment

Workstation

Desktop

Release date

August 2012

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Bus support

PCIe 3.0

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Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

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Supplementary power connectors

None

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Core clock speed

825 MHz

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Floating-point performance

1,267 gflops

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Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

14 nm

Number of transistors

2,800 million

3,000 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

768

1024

Power consumption (TDP)

75 Watt

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Texture fill rate

39.60

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Memory type

GDDR5

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Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

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Memory bus width

256 Bit

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Memory clock speed

3200 MHz

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Memory bandwidth

102.4 GB/s

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Display Connectors

1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort

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DisplayPort count

2

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Dual-link DVI support

1

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DirectX

12 (11_1)

12 (12_0)

OpenCL

1.2

2.1

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

6.7

Vulkan

1.2.131

1.3