AMD Radeon R9 290 vs ATI FirePro V3900

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 and 1024MB VRAM FirePro V3900 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

2080 additional rendering cores

ATI FirePro V3900 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290 +677%

4.849 TFLOPS

FirePro V3900

0.624 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290

VS

FirePro V3900

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Feb 2012

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

900 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

40

Compute Units

6

2560

Shading Units

480

160

TMUs

24

64

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

60.61 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.200 GPixel/s

151.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

4.849 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

624.0 GFLOPS

606.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

Turks

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

GPU Variant

Turks GL

GCN 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

0.716 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

118 mm²

Board Design

275W

TDP

50W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x DisplayPort 1.1

1x 6-pin + 1x 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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