
FirePro W9000 and Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 - video card comparison
FirePro W9000
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
Tahiti
Cypress
Market segment
Workstation
Desktop
Release date
June 2012
March 2010
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Core clock speed
975 MHz
850 MHz
Floating-point performance
3,994 gflops
2,720.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
4,313 million
2,154 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2048
1600
Power consumption (TDP)
350 Watt
228 Watt
Texture fill rate
124.8
68.00
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
6 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
5500 MHz
4800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
264 GB/s
153.6 GB/s
Display Connectors
6x mini-DisplayPort, 1x SDI
6x mini-DisplayPort
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
StereoOutput3D
1
-