AMD Radeon R9 290X vs ATI FirePro V8700

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290X

ATI FirePro V8700

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X and 1024MB VRAM FirePro V8700 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290X 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 1 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 108.8GB/s)

2016 additional rendering cores

ATI FirePro V8700 's Advantages

Lower TDP (151W vs 290W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X +369%

5.632 TFLOPS

FirePro V8700

1.2 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X

VS

FirePro V8700

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Sep 2008

Volcanic Islands

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

850 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

108.8GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

10

-

2816

Shading Units

800

176

TMUs

40

64

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.00 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

30.00 GTexel/s

-

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1200 GFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

240.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

290W

TDP

151W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 2x DisplayPort 1.0 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

RV770

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

RV770 XT (215-0669049)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

0.956 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

256 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.3

Shader Model

4.1

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