AMD Radeon R9 280X2 vs ATI FirePro V9800

VS

AMD Radeon R9 280X2

ATI FirePro V9800

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X2 and 4GB VRAM FirePro V9800 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

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 147.2GB/s)

448 additional rendering cores

ATI FirePro V9800 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (250W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280X2 +50%

4.096 TFLOPS

FirePro V9800

2.72 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280X2

VS

FirePro V9800

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Sep 2010

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

1150 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

147.2GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

20

-

2048

Shading Units

1600

128

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

128.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

-

4.096 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.720 TFLOPS

1024 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

544.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

375W

TDP

250W

750 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1 1x S-Video

3x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Cypress

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

Cypress XT GL

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

334 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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