AMD Radeon R9 290X2 vs ATI FirePro V3800

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 and 512MB VRAM FirePro V3800 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290X2 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 2 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (345.6GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

2416 additional rendering cores

ATI FirePro V3800 's Advantages

Lower TDP (43W vs 580W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X2 +983%

5.632 TFLOPS

FirePro V3800

0.52 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X2

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FirePro V3800

Graphics Card

Jun 2014

Release Date

Apr 2010

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Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1350 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

512bit

Memory Bus

64bit

345.6GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

44

Compute Units

5

2816

Shading Units

400

176

TMUs

20

64

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.200 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

13.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

520.0 GFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

Redwood

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

Redwood PRO GL

GCN 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

0.627 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

104 mm²

Board Design

580W

TDP

43W

950 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x DisplayPort 1.1

4x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

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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