ATI FirePro V8700 vs AMD Radeon R9 290X

VS

ATI FirePro V8700

AMD Radeon R9 290X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM FirePro V8700 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI FirePro V8700 's Advantages

Lower TDP (151W vs 290W)

AMD Radeon R9 290X 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 1 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 108.8GB/s)

2016 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro V8700

1.2 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X +369%

5.632 TFLOPS

FirePro V8700

VS

Radeon R9 290X

Graphics Card

Sep 2008

Release Date

Oct 2013

FirePro

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

850 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

108.8GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

44

-

800

Shading Units

2816

40

TMUs

176

16

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

30.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.0 GTexel/s

-

1200 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.632 TFLOPS

240.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

704.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

151W

TDP

290W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 2x DisplayPort 1.0 1x S-Video

Outputs

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

RV770

GPU Name

Hawaii

RV770 XT (215-0669049)

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

TeraScale

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.956 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

256 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

4.1

Shader Model

6.3

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