AMD Radeon R9 280 vs ATI FireGL V5600
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 512MB VRAM FireGL V5600 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon R9 280 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock933MHz
More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 35.20GB/s)
1672 additional rendering cores
ATI FireGL V5600 's Advantages
Lower TDP (89W vs 200W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 280
+1641%
3.344 TFLOPS
FireGL V5600
0.192 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2014
Release Date
Aug 2007
Volcanic Islands
Generation
FireGL
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
827 MHz
Base Clock
-
933 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
1100 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR4
384bit
Memory Bus
128bit
240.0GB/s
Bandwidth
35.20GB/s
Render Config
28
Compute Units
3
-
-
-
1792
Shading Units
120
112
TMUs
8
32
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
768 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
29.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
3.200 GPixel/s
104.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
6.400 GTexel/s
-
-
-
3.344 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
192.0 GFLOPS
836.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
200W
TDP
89W
550 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
2x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
2x DVI
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
RV630
Tahiti PRO3
(215-0821330)
GPU Variant
RV630 GL
GCN 1.0
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
65 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
0.39 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
153 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
10.0 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
1.2
OpenCL
N/A
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
-
-
-
5.1
Shader Model
4.0
