AMD Radeon R9 280X2 vs ATI FirePro V4900

VS

AMD Radeon R9 280X2

ATI FirePro V4900

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X2 and 1024MB VRAM FirePro V4900 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 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

1568 additional rendering cores

ATI FirePro V4900 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280X2 +433%

4.096 TFLOPS

FirePro V4900

0.768 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280X2

VS

FirePro V4900

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Nov 2011

Volcanic Islands

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

950 MHz

Base Clock

-

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

6

-

2048

Shading Units

480

128

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.400 GPixel/s

128.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

19.20 GTexel/s

-

4.096 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

768.0 GFLOPS

1024 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

375W

TDP

75W

750 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DVI 2x DisplayPort 1.1

3x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Turks

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

Turks XT GL

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.716 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

118 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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