Radeon R9 280 vs FirePro V5900
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 2GB VRAM FirePro V5900 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R9 280 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock933MHz
More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)
1280 additional rendering cores
FirePro V5900 's Advantages
Lower TDP (75W vs 200W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 280
+444%
3344
FirePro V5900
614
Graphics Card
Mar 2014
Release Date
May 2011
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
500 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
384bit
Memory Bus
256bit
240.0GB/s
Bandwidth
64.00GB/s
Render Config
28
Compute Units
8
1792
Shading Units
512
112
TMUs
32
32
ROPs
32
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
768 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
29.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
19.20 GPixel/s
104.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
19.20 GTexel/s
3.344 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
614.4 GFLOPS
836.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
153.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
200W
TDP
75W
550 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
2x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x DVI
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
Cayman
Tahiti PRO3
(215-0821330)
GPU Variant
Cayman LE WS
GCN 1.0
Architecture
TeraScale 3
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
2.64 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
389 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
