Radeon HD 6870 and FirePro W5100 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 6870 vs FirePro W5100
Radeon HD 6870
2285
FirePro W5100
3104
Radeon HD 6870
FirePro W5100
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code name
RV940 Barts
Bonaire
Market segment
Desktop
Workstation
Release date
October 2010
March 2014
Bus support
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
None
Boost clock speed
900 MHz
-
Core clock speed
-
930 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,016.0 gflops
1,428 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
1,700 million
2,080 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1120
768
Power consumption (TDP)
151 Watt
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
50.40
44.64
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1050 MHz
6000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
134.4 GB/s
96 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
4x DisplayPort
Eyefinity
1
-
DisplayPort count
-
4
Dual-link DVI support
-
1
HD сomponent video output
-
1
HDMI
+
-
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
DirectX® 11
12 (12_0)
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
6.3
Vulkan
-
1.2.131
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
Enduro
-
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
StereoOutput3D
-
1
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-