ATI M5800 vs AMD W600

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Combined performance score

FirePro W600
4.31
+215%

W600 outperforms M5800 by 215% in our combined benchmark results.

General info

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

Place in performance ranking631965
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Value for money0.51no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2012−2020)Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code nameCape VerdeMadison
Market segmentWorkstationMobile workstation
Release date13 June 2012 (11 years old)1 March 2010 (14 years old)
Launch price (MSRP)$599 no data
Current price$358 (0.6x MSRP)$60
Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores512400
Core clock speed750 MHz650 MHz
Number of transistors1,500 million627 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)75 Watt26 Watt
Texture fill rate24.0013.00
Floating-point performance768.0 gflops520.0 gflops

Size and compatibility

Information on FirePro W600 and FirePro M5800 compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility). For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop sizeno datamedium sized
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Length163 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

Memory

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 typeGDDR5DDR3, GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount2 GB1 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed4000 MHz800 MHz
Memory bandwidth64 GB/s51.2 GB/s
Shared memoryno data-

Video outputs and ports

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 Connectors6x mini-DisplayPortNo outputs

API support

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

DirectX12 (11_1)11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model5.15.0
OpenGL4.64.4
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan1.2.131N/A

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

Full HD65−70
+210%
21
−210%

Advantages and disadvantages


Performance score 4.31 1.37
Recency 13 June 2012 1 March 2010
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 1 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 40 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 75 Watt 26 Watt

The FirePro W600 is our recommended choice as it beats the FirePro M5800 in performance tests.

Be aware that FirePro W600 is a workstation card while FirePro M5800 is a mobile workstation one.


Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.

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