ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT vs ATI FirePro V9800

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 2900 XT and 4GB VRAM FirePro V9800 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (215W vs 250W)

ATI FirePro V9800 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 4 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (147.2GB/s vs 106.0GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 2900 XT

0.476 TFLOPS

FirePro V9800 +471%

2.72 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2900 XT

VS

FirePro V9800

Graphics Card

May 2007

Release Date

Sep 2010

Radeon R600

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

828 MHz

Memory Clock

1150 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

106.0GB/s

Bandwidth

147.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

4

Compute Units

20

320

Shading Units

1600

16

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

11.89 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

11.89 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

475.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.720 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

544.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

R600

GPU Name

Cypress

R600 XT (215RGMDKA13FG)

GPU Variant

Cypress XT GL

TeraScale

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.72 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

420 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Board Design

215W

TDP

250W

550 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

10.0 (10_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

OpenGL

4.4

N/A

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.0

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