FirePro W5000 and Radeon HD 6970M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score FirePro W5000 vs Radeon HD 6970M
FirePro W5000
3066
Radeon HD 6970M
2338
FirePro W5000
Radeon HD 6970M
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
Pitcairn
Blackcomb XT
Market segment
Workstation
Laptop
Release date
August 2012
January 2011
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Core clock speed
825 MHz
680 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,267 gflops
1,305.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
2,800 million
1,700 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
768
960
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
75-100 Watt
Texture fill rate
39.60
32.64
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
3200 MHz
900 MHz
Memory bandwidth
102.4 GB/s
115.2 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort
No outputs
DisplayPort count
2
-
Dual-link DVI support
1
-
DirectX
12 (11_1)
11.2 (11_0)
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
Shader Model
5.1
5.0
Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A