ATI FirePro V8800 vs AMD Radeon R9 280

VS

ATI FirePro V8800

AMD Radeon R9 280

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro V8800 and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD 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)

FirePro V8800

2.64 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280 +26%

3.344 TFLOPS

FirePro V8800

VS

Radeon R9 280

Graphics Card

Apr 2010

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

1150 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

147.2GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

28

-

1600

Shading Units

1792

80

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

32

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

26.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.86 GPixel/s

66.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

104.5 GTexel/s

-

2.640 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.344 TFLOPS

528.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

836.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

208W

TDP

200W

550 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

4x DisplayPort 1.1 1x S-Video

Outputs

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

Tahiti

Cypress XT GL

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

334 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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