Radeon R9 280 vs FirePro V5800
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 1024MB VRAM FirePro V5800 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 64.00GB/s)
992 additional rendering cores
FirePro V5800 's Advantages
Lower TDP (74W vs 200W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 280
+202%
3344
FirePro V5800
1104
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
1000 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
384bit
Memory Bus
128bit
240.0GB/s
Bandwidth
64.00GB/s
Render Config
28
Compute Units
10
1792
Shading Units
800
112
TMUs
40
32
ROPs
16
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
768 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
29.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
11.04 GPixel/s
104.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
27.60 GTexel/s
3.344 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1104 GFLOPS
836.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
200W
TDP
74W
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
Juniper
Tahiti PRO3
(215-0821330)
GPU Variant
Juniper XT GL
GCN 1.0
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
1.04 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
166 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
