FirePro W7000 and Radeon HD 6850 - video card comparison

Passmark - benchmark score FirePro W7000 vs Radeon HD 6850

FirePro W7000

4417

Radeon HD 6850

2030

FirePro W7000

Radeon HD 6850

Architecture

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)

GPU code name

Pitcairn

Barts

Market segment

Workstation

Desktop

Release date

June 2012

October 2010

Bus support

PCIe 3.0

AGP

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

Core clock speed

950 MHz

Floating-point performance

2,432 gflops

1,488.0 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

40 nm

Number of transistors

2,800 million

1,700 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1280

960

Power consumption (TDP)

350 Watt

127 Watt

Texture fill rate

76.00

37.20

Memory type

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

1 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

4800 MHz

Memory bandwidth

153.6 GB/s

128.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

4x DisplayPort

2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort

Eyefinity

DisplayPort count

Dual-link DVI support

HDMI

DisplayPort support

DirectX

12 (11_1)

DirectX® 11

Mantle

OpenCL

1.2

OpenGL

4.6

4.4

Shader Model

5.1

5.0

Vulkan

1.2.131

AppAcceleration

CrossFire

Enduro

HD3D

PowerTune

StereoOutput3D

TrueAudio

ZeroCore