AMD Radeon R9 280X vs ATI FireGL V7600
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X and 512MB VRAM FireGL V7600 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon R9 280X 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 2 months late
Boost Clock1000MHz
More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)
1728 additional rendering cores
ATI FireGL V7600 's Advantages
Lower TDP (127W vs 250W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 280X
+966%
4.096 TFLOPS
FireGL V7600
0.384 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2013
Release Date
Aug 2007
Volcanic Islands
Generation
FireGL
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
850 MHz
Base Clock
-
1000 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
384bit
Memory Bus
256bit
288.0GB/s
Bandwidth
51.20GB/s
Render Config
32
Compute Units
4
-
-
-
2048
Shading Units
320
128
TMUs
16
32
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
768 KB
L2 Cache
128 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
32.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.600 GPixel/s
128.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
9.600 GTexel/s
-
-
-
4.096 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
384.0 GFLOPS
1024 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
250W
TDP
127W
600 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
R600
Tahiti XTL
(215-0821065)
GPU Variant
R600 GL
GCN 1.0
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
80 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
0.72 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
420 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
10.0 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
1.2
OpenCL
N/A
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
-
-
-
5.1
Shader Model
4.0
