AMD Radeon R9 290 vs ATI FirePro V4900

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290

ATI FirePro V4900

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 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 290 's Advantages

Released 2 years late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

2080 additional rendering cores

ATI FirePro V4900 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290 +531%

4.849 TFLOPS

FirePro V4900

0.768 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290

VS

FirePro V4900

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Nov 2011

Volcanic Islands

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

40

Compute Units

6

-

2560

Shading Units

480

160

TMUs

24

64

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

60.61 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.400 GPixel/s

151.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

19.20 GTexel/s

-

4.849 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

768.0 GFLOPS

606.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

275W

TDP

75W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 2x DisplayPort 1.1

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

Turks

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

GPU Variant

Turks XT GL

GCN 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

0.716 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

118 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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