AMD Radeon R9 285X vs ATI FirePro V3900

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 285X and 1024MB VRAM FirePro V3900 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 285X 's Advantages

More VRAM (3GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

1568 additional rendering cores

ATI FirePro V3900 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 285X +557%

4.104 TFLOPS

FirePro V3900

0.624 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 285X

VS

FirePro V3900

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Feb 2012

Volcanic Islands

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

32

Compute Units

6

2048

Shading Units

480

128

TMUs

24

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

32.06 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.200 GPixel/s

128.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

4.104 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

624.0 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Tonga

GPU Name

Turks

Tonga XT (215-0851313)

GPU Variant

Turks GL

GCN 3.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5 billion

Transistors

0.716 billion

366 mm²

Die Size

118 mm²

Board Design

200W

TDP

50W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x DisplayPort 1.1

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.0

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.3

Shader Model

5.0

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