ATI FirePro V8700 vs AMD Radeon R9 290X2

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM FirePro V8700 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI FirePro V8700 's Advantages

Lower TDP (151W vs 580W)

AMD Radeon R9 290X2 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (345.6GB/s vs 108.8GB/s)

2016 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro V8700

1.2 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X2 +369%

5.632 TFLOPS

FirePro V8700

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Radeon R9 290X2

Graphics Card

Sep 2008

Release Date

Jun 2014

FirePro

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

850 MHz

Memory Clock

1350 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

108.8GB/s

Bandwidth

345.6GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

10

Compute Units

44

800

Shading Units

2816

40

TMUs

176

16

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

12.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

30.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1200 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.632 TFLOPS

240.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

704.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

RV770

GPU Name

Hawaii

RV770 XT (215-0669049)

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

TeraScale

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.956 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

256 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Board Design

151W

TDP

580W

450 W

Suggested PSU

950 W

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

Outputs

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

4x 8-pin

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

4.1

Shader Model

6.3

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