AMD Radeon R9 280X vs ATI FireGL V8650
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X and 2GB VRAM FireGL V8650 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 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 111.1GB/s)
1728 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 280X
+830%
4.096 TFLOPS
FireGL V8650
0.44 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
868 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR4
384bit
Memory Bus
512bit
288.0GB/s
Bandwidth
111.1GB/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
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
32.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
11.01 GPixel/s
128.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
11.01 GTexel/s
-
-
-
4.096 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
440.3 GFLOPS
1024 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
250W
TDP
Unknown
600 W
Suggested PSU
200 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 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
R600
Tahiti XTL
(215-0821065)
GPU Variant
R600 V8650
(215RGIDKA13FG)
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
