AMD Radeon R9 390X vs ATI FirePro V9800P

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon R9 390X and 4GB VRAM FirePro V9800P to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 390X 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 147.2GB/s)

1216 additional rendering cores

ATI FirePro V9800P 's Advantages

Lower TDP (225W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 390X +117%

5.914 TFLOPS

FirePro V9800P

2.72 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 390X

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FirePro V9800P

Graphics Card

Jun 2015

Release Date

Sep 2010

Pirate Islands

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1150 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

384.0GB/s

Bandwidth

147.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

44

Compute Units

20

2816

Shading Units

1600

176

TMUs

80

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

67.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

184.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

5.914 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.720 TFLOPS

739.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

544.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Grenada

GPU Name

Cypress

Grenada XT (215-0880004)

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

Board Design

275W

TDP

225W

600 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

1x DisplayPort 1.1

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-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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