AMD Radeon R9 280 vs ATI FirePro V9800

VS

AMD Radeon R9 280

ATI FirePro V9800

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 4GB VRAM FirePro V9800 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 6 months late

Boost Clock933MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 147.2GB/s)

192 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (200W vs 250W)

ATI FirePro V9800 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280 +22%

3.344 TFLOPS

FirePro V9800

2.72 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280

VS

FirePro V9800

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Sep 2010

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

1150 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

147.2GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

20

-

1792

Shading Units

1600

112

TMUs

80

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

27.20 GPixel/s

104.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

-

3.344 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.720 TFLOPS

836.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

544.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

250W

550 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Cypress

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

GPU Variant

Cypress XT 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

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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