Radeon R9 280 vs FireGL V8600
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 1024MB VRAM FireGL V8600 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R9 280 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock933MHz
More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 111.1GB/s)
1472 additional rendering cores
FireGL V8600 's Advantages
Lower TDP (159W vs 200W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 280
+660%
3344
FireGL V8600
440
Graphics Card
Mar 2014
Release Date
May 2007
Volcanic Islands
Generation
FireGL
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
827 MHz
Base Clock
-
933 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
868 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR4
384bit
Memory Bus
512bit
240.0GB/s
Bandwidth
111.1GB/s
Render Config
28
Compute Units
4
1792
Shading Units
320
112
TMUs
16
32
ROPs
16
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
768 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
29.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
11.01 GPixel/s
104.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
11.01 GTexel/s
3.344 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
440.3 GFLOPS
836.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
200W
TDP
159W
550 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
2x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x DVI
1x DisplayPort
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
R600
Tahiti PRO3
(215-0821330)
GPU Variant
R600 V8600
GCN 1.0
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
80 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
0.72 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
420 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
10.0 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
1.2
OpenCL
N/A
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
5.1
Shader Model
4.0
