AMD Radeon R9 285X vs ATI FirePro V8800

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 285X and 2GB VRAM FirePro V8800 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 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 147.2GB/s)

448 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (200W vs 208W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 285X +55%

4.104 TFLOPS

FirePro V8800

2.64 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 285X

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FirePro V8800

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Apr 2010

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

1150 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

147.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

32

Compute Units

20

2048

Shading Units

1600

128

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

32.06 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

26.40 GPixel/s

128.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

66.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

4.104 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.640 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

528.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tonga

GPU Name

Cypress

Tonga XT (215-0851313)

GPU Variant

Cypress XT GL

GCN 3.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

366 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Board Design

200W

TDP

208W

550 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.1 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

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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