AMD Radeon R9 280 vs ATI FirePro V7800P
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 2GB VRAM FirePro V7800P to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon R9 280 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock933MHz
More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)
352 additional rendering cores
ATI FirePro V7800P 's Advantages
Lower TDP (138W vs 200W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 280
+65%
3.344 TFLOPS
FirePro V7800P
2.016 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2014
Release Date
May 2011
Volcanic Islands
Generation
FirePro
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
827 MHz
Base Clock
-
933 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
384bit
Memory Bus
256bit
240.0GB/s
Bandwidth
128.0GB/s
Render Config
28
Compute Units
18
-
-
-
1792
Shading Units
1440
112
TMUs
72
32
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
768 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
29.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
22.40 GPixel/s
104.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
50.40 GTexel/s
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-
-
3.344 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.016 TFLOPS
836.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
403.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
200W
TDP
138W
550 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x DVI
2x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x DisplayPort 1.1
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
Cypress
Tahiti PRO3
(215-0821330)
GPU Variant
Cypress PRO GL
GCN 1.0
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
2.154 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
334 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.4
1.2
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
-
-
-
5.1
Shader Model
5.0
