AMD Radeon R9 290 vs AMD FirePro W600

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 and 2GB VRAM FirePro W600 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

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

2048 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro W600 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290 +531%

4.849 TFLOPS

FirePro W600

0.768 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290

VS

FirePro W600

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Jun 2012

Volcanic Islands

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

40

Compute Units

8

2560

Shading Units

512

160

TMUs

32

64

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

60.61 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.00 GPixel/s

151.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

24.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

4.849 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

768.0 GFLOPS

606.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

48.00 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

Cape Verde

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

GPU Variant

Cape Verde PRO GL

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

275W

TDP

75W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.3

Shader Model

5.1

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