Radeon HD 8970 OEM and FirePro M5725 - video card comparison

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

FirePro M5725

Architecture

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

TeraScale (2005−2013)

GPU code name

Tahiti

M96

Market segment

Desktop

Mobile workstation

Release date

January 2013

January 2009

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Core clock speed

925 MHz

675 MHz

Floating-point performance

3,789 gflops

432.0 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

55 nm

Number of transistors

4,313 million

514 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2048

320

Power consumption (TDP)

250 Watt

35 Watt

Texture fill rate

118.4

21.60

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR3

Maximum RAM amount

3 GB

512 MB

Memory bus width

384 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

5500 MHz

1600 MHz

Memory bandwidth

264.0 GB/s

25.6 GB/s

Display Connectors

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

No outputs

HDMI

DirectX

12 (11_1)

10.1 (10_1)

OpenCL

1.2

1.1

OpenGL

4.6

3.3

Shader Model

5.1

4.1

Vulkan

1.2.131

N/A