AMD Radeon R9 280X vs ATI FirePro V4800

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X and 1024MB VRAM FirePro V4800 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 280X 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1000MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

1648 additional rendering cores

ATI FirePro V4800 's Advantages

Lower TDP (69W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280X +560%

4.096 TFLOPS

FirePro V4800

0.62 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280X

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FirePro V4800

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Apr 2010

Volcanic Islands

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

-

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

32

Compute Units

5

2048

Shading Units

400

128

TMUs

20

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.200 GPixel/s

128.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.50 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

4.096 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

620.0 GFLOPS

1024 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Redwood

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

Redwood XT GL

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.627 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

104 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

69W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 2x DisplayPort 1.1

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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