AMD Radeon R9 290 vs ATI FirePro V3800

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290

ATI FirePro V3800

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 and 512MB VRAM FirePro V3800 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

2160 additional rendering cores

ATI FirePro V3800 's Advantages

Lower TDP (43W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290 +832%

4.849 TFLOPS

FirePro V3800

0.52 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290

VS

FirePro V3800

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Apr 2010

Volcanic Islands

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

512bit

Memory Bus

64bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

40

Compute Units

5

-

2560

Shading Units

400

160

TMUs

20

64

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

60.61 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.200 GPixel/s

151.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

13.00 GTexel/s

-

4.849 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

520.0 GFLOPS

606.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

275W

TDP

43W

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 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 Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

Redwood

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

GPU Variant

Redwood PRO GL

GCN 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

0.627 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

104 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.0

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.3

Shader Model

5.0

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