AMD Radeon R9 290 vs ATI FirePro V8800

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290

ATI FirePro V8800

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

Released 3 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 147.2GB/s)

960 additional rendering cores

ATI FirePro V8800 's Advantages

Lower TDP (208W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290 +83%

4.849 TFLOPS

FirePro V8800

2.64 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290

VS

FirePro V8800

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

1150 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

147.2GB/s

Render Config

40

Compute Units

20

-

2560

Shading Units

1600

160

TMUs

80

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

26.40 GPixel/s

151.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

66.00 GTexel/s

-

4.849 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.640 TFLOPS

606.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

528.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

275W

TDP

208W

600 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 Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

Cypress

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

GPU Variant

Cypress XT GL

GCN 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

334 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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