ATI FirePro V8800 vs AMD Radeon R9 290X

VS

ATI FirePro V8800

AMD Radeon R9 290X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro V8800 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 V8800 's Advantages

Lower TDP (208W vs 290W)

AMD Radeon R9 290X 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 147.2GB/s)

1216 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro V8800

2.64 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X +113%

5.632 TFLOPS

FirePro V8800

VS

Radeon R9 290X

Graphics Card

Apr 2010

Release Date

Oct 2013

FirePro

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1150 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

147.2GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

44

-

1600

Shading Units

2816

80

TMUs

176

32

ROPs

64

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

26.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

66.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.0 GTexel/s

-

2.640 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.632 TFLOPS

528.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

704.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

208W

TDP

290W

550 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

4x DisplayPort 1.1 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

Cypress

GPU Name

Hawaii

Cypress XT GL

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.3

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