Radeon Pro 570 vs ATI FireGL V5100

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated327
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data9.54
ArchitectureR400 (2004−2008)GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code nameR423Polaris 20
Market segmentWorkstationMobile workstation
Release date1 May 2004 (20 years ago)5 June 2017 (7 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA coresno data1792
Core clock speed450 MHz1000 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1105 MHz
Number of transistors160 million5,700 million
Manufacturing process technology130 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data120 Watt
Texture fill rate5.400123.8
Floating-point processing powerno data3.96 TFLOPS
ROPs1232
TMUs12112

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Length211 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeDDRGDDR5
Maximum RAM amount128 MB4 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed350 MHz1695 MHz
Memory bandwidth22.4 GB/s217.0 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-VideoNo outputs

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX9.0b (9_2)12 (12_0)
Shader Modelno data6.4
OpenGL2.04.6
OpenCLN/A2.0
VulkanN/A1.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 May 2004 5 June 2017
Maximum RAM amount 128 MB 4 GB
Chip lithography 130 nm 14 nm

Pro 570 has an age advantage of 13 years, a 3100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 828.6% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between FireGL V5100 and Radeon Pro 570. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that FireGL V5100 is a workstation card while Radeon Pro 570 is a mobile workstation one.


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ATI FireGL V5100
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