AMD Radeon R9 290 vs AMD FirePro V5900

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290

AMD FirePro V5900

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 and 2GB VRAM FirePro V5900 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 and 6 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

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

2048 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro V5900 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290 +689%

4.849 TFLOPS

FirePro V5900

0.614 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290

VS

FirePro V5900

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

May 2011

Volcanic Islands

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

40

Compute Units

8

-

2560

Shading Units

512

160

TMUs

32

64

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

60.61 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.20 GPixel/s

151.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

19.20 GTexel/s

-

4.849 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

614.4 GFLOPS

606.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

153.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

275W

TDP

75W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

Cayman

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

GPU Variant

Cayman LE WS

GCN 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 3

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

2.64 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

389 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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