AMD Radeon R9 290X2 vs ATI FirePro V9800

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290X2

ATI FirePro V9800

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 and 4GB VRAM FirePro V9800 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290X2 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 9 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (345.6GB/s vs 147.2GB/s)

1216 additional rendering cores

ATI FirePro V9800 's Advantages

Lower TDP (250W vs 580W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X2 +107%

5.632 TFLOPS

FirePro V9800

2.72 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X2

VS

FirePro V9800

Graphics Card

Jun 2014

Release Date

Sep 2010

Volcanic Islands

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1350 MHz

Memory Clock

1150 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

345.6GB/s

Bandwidth

147.2GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

20

-

2816

Shading Units

1600

176

TMUs

80

64

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

-

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.720 TFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

544.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

580W

TDP

250W

950 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1 1x S-Video

4x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

Cypress

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

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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