ATI FirePro V3900 vs AMD Radeon R9 280

VS

ATI FirePro V3900

AMD Radeon R9 280

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM FirePro V3900 and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI FirePro V3900 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 200W)

AMD Radeon R9 280 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock933MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

1312 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro V3900

0.624 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280 +435%

3.344 TFLOPS

FirePro V3900

VS

Radeon R9 280

Graphics Card

Feb 2012

Release Date

Mar 2014

FirePro

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

827 MHz

-

Boost Clock

933 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

28

-

480

Shading Units

1792

24

TMUs

112

8

ROPs

32

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

5.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.86 GPixel/s

15.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

104.5 GTexel/s

-

624.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.344 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

836.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

200W

250 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x DVI 1x DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

1x DVI 2x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Turks

GPU Name

Tahiti

Turks GL

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.716 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

118 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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