ATI FirePro V4900 vs AMD Radeon R9 280X

VS

ATI FirePro V4900

AMD Radeon R9 280X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM FirePro V4900 and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI FirePro V4900 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 250W)

AMD Radeon R9 280X 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1000MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

1568 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro V4900

0.768 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280X +433%

4.096 TFLOPS

FirePro V4900

VS

Radeon R9 280X

Graphics Card

Nov 2011

Release Date

Oct 2013

FirePro

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

850 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

64.00GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

32

-

480

Shading Units

2048

24

TMUs

128

8

ROPs

32

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

6.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

19.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.0 GTexel/s

-

768.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.096 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

1024 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

250W

250 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 2x DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Turks

GPU Name

Tahiti

Turks XT GL

GPU Variant

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

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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