AMD FirePro W5000: specs and benchmarks

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Summary

AMD started FirePro W5000 sales 7 August 2012 at a recommended price of $599 . This is a GCN 1.0 architecture desktop card based on 28 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 2 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 3.2 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 102.4 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is single-slot card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 183 mm. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 75 Watt.

It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 7.67% of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090.

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General info

Some basic facts about FirePro W5000: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in performance ranking486
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Value for money4.33
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code namePitcairn
Market segmentWorkstation
Release date7 August 2012 (11 years old)
Launch price (MSRP)$599
Current price$141 (0.2x MSRP)of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB)
Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Technical specs

FirePro W5000's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of FirePro W5000's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores768of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Core clock speed825 MHzof 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Number of transistors2,800 millionof 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology28 nmof 4 (GeForce RTX 4080)
Power consumption (TDP)75 Wattof 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate39.60of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB)
Floating-point performance1,267 gflopsof 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Size and compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of FirePro W5000 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

Bus supportPCIe 3.0
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16
Length183 mm
Width1-slot
Form factorfull height / half length
Supplementary power connectorsNone

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on FirePro W5000: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory typeGDDR5
Maximum RAM amount2 GBof 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Memory bus width256 Bitof 19000 (GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB)
Memory clock speed3200 MHzof 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER)
Memory bandwidth102.4 GB/sof 3276 (Aldebaran)

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on FirePro W5000. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort
DisplayPort count2
Dual-link DVI support1

API support

APIs supported by FirePro W5000, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX12 (11_1)
Shader Model5.1
OpenGL4.6
OpenCL1.2
Vulkan1.2.131

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of FirePro W5000. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

Benchmark coverage: 25%

FirePro W5000 2973

GeekBench 5 OpenCL

Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses OpenCL API by Khronos Group.

Benchmark coverage: 9%

FirePro W5000 10275

GeekBench 5 Vulkan

Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses Vulkan API by AMD & Khronos Group.

Benchmark coverage: 5%

FirePro W5000 16955

Gaming performance

Let's see how good FirePro W5000 is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Relative perfomance

Overall FirePro W5000 performance compared to nearest competitors among server video cards.


NVIDIA equivalent

According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to FirePro W5000 is GRID M3-3020, which is slower by 1% and lower by 1 position in our ranking.

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Recommended processors

These processors are most commonly used with FirePro W5000 according to our statistics.

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