Radeon R9 280 vs FirePro V8800
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 2GB VRAM FirePro V8800 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 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 147.2GB/s)
192 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (200W vs 208W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 280
+26%
3344
FirePro V8800
2640
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
1150 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
384bit
Memory Bus
256bit
240.0GB/s
Bandwidth
147.2GB/s
Render Config
28
Compute Units
20
1792
Shading Units
1600
112
TMUs
80
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
26.40 GPixel/s
104.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
66.00 GTexel/s
3.344 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.640 TFLOPS
836.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
528.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
200W
TDP
208W
550 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x DVI
2x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.1
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
Cypress
Tahiti PRO3
(215-0821330)
GPU Variant
Cypress XT GL
GCN 1.0
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
2.154 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
334 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
