Radeon R9 280 vs FirePro V4800
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 1024MB VRAM FirePro V4800 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R9 280 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock933MHz
More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)
1392 additional rendering cores
FirePro V4800 's Advantages
Lower TDP (69W vs 200W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 280
+439%
3344
FirePro V4800
620
Graphics Card
Mar 2014
Release Date
Apr 2010
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
900 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
384bit
Memory Bus
128bit
240.0GB/s
Bandwidth
57.60GB/s
Render Config
28
Compute Units
5
1792
Shading Units
400
112
TMUs
20
32
ROPs
8
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
768 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
29.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
6.200 GPixel/s
104.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
15.50 GTexel/s
3.344 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
620.0 GFLOPS
836.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
200W
TDP
69W
550 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
2x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x DVI
2x DisplayPort 1.1
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
Redwood
Tahiti PRO3
(215-0821330)
GPU Variant
Redwood XT GL
GCN 1.0
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
0.627 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
104 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.4
1.2
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
5.1
Shader Model
5.0
