Radeon R9 280 vs FirePro V3700
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 256MB VRAM FirePro V3700 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R9 280 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock933MHz
More VRAM (3GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 15.20GB/s)
1752 additional rendering cores
FirePro V3700 's Advantages
Lower TDP (32W vs 200W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 280
+5125%
3344
FirePro V3700
64
Graphics Card
Mar 2014
Release Date
Aug 2008
Volcanic Islands
Generation
FirePro
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
827 MHz
Base Clock
-
933 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
950 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
384bit
Memory Bus
64bit
240.0GB/s
Bandwidth
15.20GB/s
Render Config
28
Compute Units
2
1792
Shading Units
40
112
TMUs
4
32
ROPs
4
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
768 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
Theoretical Performance
29.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
3.200 GPixel/s
104.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
3.200 GTexel/s
3.344 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
64.00 GFLOPS
836.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
200W
TDP
32W
550 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
2x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
2x DVI
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
RV620
Tahiti PRO3
(215-0821330)
GPU Variant
RV620 GL
(215-0670004)
GCN 1.0
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
55 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
0.181 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
67 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
1.2
OpenCL
N/A
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
5.1
Shader Model
4.1
