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Legit Reviews posted a review on the AMD FirePro W5000 Professional Graphics Card



AMD launched their new Southern Islands FirePro products at Siggraph 2012, which included the W9000, W8000, W7000 and W5000, which all make use of AMD's graphics core next (GCN) architecture. The FirePro W9000 and W8000 have already been reviewed right here at Legit Reviews, so today we will be taking a look at the more value oriented FirePro W5000 and how it does in professional applications.
AMD Firepro W5000

Priced at $448 shipped, the W5000 is a card that comes with the support and certification for the applications professionals use without the high price tag of the more powerful cards in the FirePro lineup. The W5000 packs 768 Stream processors with an engine clock of 825MHz. The 2GB of GDDR5 memory comes clocked at 800MHz on a 256-bit bus, offering 102.4GB/s of memory bandwidth. The W5000 also packs 32 ROPs. Overall, the W5000 packs quite a punch for its price range fitting in nicely in the mid-range segment offering 1.27 TFLOPs of single precision compute performance.
  AMD FirePro W5000 Professional Graphics Card Review