ATI Radeon X600 PRO vs FirePro R5000

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	553	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	0.59	no data
Power efficiency	3.17	no data
Architecture	GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)	Rage 9 (2003−2006)
GPU code name	Pitcairn	RV380
Market segment	Workstation	Desktop
Release date	25 February 2013 (11 years ago)	1 September 2004 (20 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$1,099	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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 cores	768	no data
Core clock speed	825 MHz	400 MHz
Number of transistors	2,800 million	75 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	130 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	350 Watt	36 Watt
Texture fill rate	39.60	1.600
Floating-point processing power	1.267 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	32	4
TMUs	48	4

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).

Bus support	PCIe 3.0	no data
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	279 mm	no data
Width	1-slot	1-slot
Form factor	full height / full length	no data
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin	None

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 type	GDDR5	DDR
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	128 MB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	800 MHz	300 MHz
Memory bandwidth	102.4 GB/s	9.6 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 Connectors	2x mini-DisplayPort	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Dual-link DVI support	+	-

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (11_1)	9.0b
Shader Model	5.1	no data
OpenGL	4.6	2.0
OpenCL	1.2	N/A
Vulkan	1.2.131	N/A

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

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Pros & cons summary

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Recency	25 February 2013	1 September 2004
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	128 MB
Chip lithography	28 nm	130 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	350 Watt	36 Watt

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