AMD Radeon R9 290X vs ATI FirePro V7800

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X and 2GB VRAM FirePro V7800 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290X 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

1376 additional rendering cores

ATI FirePro V7800 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 290W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X +179%

5.632 TFLOPS

FirePro V7800

2.016 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X

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FirePro V7800

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Apr 2010

Volcanic Islands

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 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

256bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

44

Compute Units

18

2816

Shading Units

1440

176

TMUs

72

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

22.40 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

50.40 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.016 TFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

403.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

Cypress

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

Cypress PRO 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

Board Design

290W

TDP

150W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 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

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.0

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.3

Shader Model

5.0

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