AMD Radeon R9 280X2 vs ATI FireGL V8650

VS

AMD Radeon R9 280X2

ATI FireGL V8650

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X2 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 280X2 's Advantages

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 280X2 +830%

4.096 TFLOPS

FireGL V8650

0.44 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280X2

VS

FireGL V8650

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Aug 2007

Volcanic Islands

Generation

FireGL

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

950 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

375W

TDP

Unknown

750 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

3x 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

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