AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs AMD FirePro W5000

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 8970M and AMD FirePro W5000 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8970M

• Videocard is newer: launch date 9 month(s) later
• Around 3% higher core clock speed: 850 MHz vs 825 MHz
• Around 82% higher texture fill rate: 72 GTexel / s vs 39.6 GTexel / s
• Around 67% higher pipelines: 1280 vs 768
• Around 82% better floating-point performance: 2,304 gflops vs 1,267 gflops
• 3.5x lower typical power consumption: 100 Watt vs 350 Watt
• 2x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2 GB
• Around 50% higher memory clock speed: 4800 MHz vs 3200 MHz
• Around 30% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3876 vs 2976
• Around 42% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 807 vs 569
• 2.1x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 20588 vs 9969
• Around 59% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 1223.742 vs 771.327
• 2.1x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 5.78 vs 2.758

Reasons to consider the AMD FirePro W5000

• Around 71% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 4308 vs 2521
• Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3716 vs 3688
• Around 29% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3359 vs 2595
• Around 71% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 4308 vs 2521
• Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3716 vs 3688
• Around 29% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3359 vs 2595

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 8970M
GPU 2: AMD FirePro W5000

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	3876 2976
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	807 569
Geekbench - OpenCL	GPU 1 GPU 2	20588 9969
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1223.742 771.327
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	5.78 2.758
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2521 4308
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3688 3716
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2595 3359
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2521 4308
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3688 3716
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2595 3359

Compare specifications (specs)