AMD Radeon R9 270X vs ATI FirePro V3900

VS

AMD Radeon R9 270X

ATI FirePro V3900

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270X and 1024MB VRAM FirePro V3900 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 270X 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1050MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

800 additional rendering cores

ATI FirePro V3900 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 180W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 270X +330%

2.688 TFLOPS

FirePro V3900

0.624 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270X

VS

FirePro V3900

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Feb 2012

Volcanic Islands

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

-

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

6

-

1280

Shading Units

480

80

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

33.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.200 GPixel/s

84.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.60 GTexel/s

-

2.688 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

624.0 GFLOPS

168.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

180W

TDP

50W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x DisplayPort 1.1

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Curacao

GPU Name

Turks

Curacao XT (215-0848004)

GPU Variant

Turks GL

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.716 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

118 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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