Radeon R5 Graphics vs FirePro W5000

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking523not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation1.49no data
Power efficiency7.08no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code namePitcairnSpectre SL
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date7 August 2012 (12 years ago)17 September 2014 (10 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$599 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores768256
Core clock speed825 MHz497 MHz
Boost clock speedno data720 MHz
Number of transistors2,800 million2,410 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)75 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate39.607.952
Floating-point processing power1.267 TFLOPS0.2545 TFLOPS
ROPs324
TMUs4816

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 supportPCIe 3.0no data
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16IGP
Length183 mmno data
Width1-slotIGP
Form factorfull height / half lengthno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

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 typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount2 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width256 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed800 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth102.4 GB/sno data

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 Connectors1x DVI, 2x DisplayPortNo outputs
DisplayPort count2no data
Dual-link DVI support+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)12 (12_0)
Shader Model5.16.0
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.22.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 August 2012 17 September 2014
Power consumption (TDP) 75 Watt 15 Watt

R5 Graphics has an age advantage of 2 years, and 400% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between FirePro W5000 and Radeon R5 Graphics. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that FirePro W5000 is a workstation graphics card while Radeon R5 Graphics is a desktop one.


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