AMD Radeon R9 280 vs ATI FirePro V8800

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 2GB VRAM FirePro V8800 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 280 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock933MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 147.2GB/s)

192 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (200W vs 208W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280 +26%

3.344 TFLOPS

FirePro V8800

2.64 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280

VS

FirePro V8800

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Apr 2010

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Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

827 MHz

Base Clock

-

933 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1150 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

147.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

28

Compute Units

20

1792

Shading Units

1600

112

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

29.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

26.40 GPixel/s

104.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

66.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.344 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.640 TFLOPS

836.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

528.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Cypress

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

GPU Variant

Cypress XT GL

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Board Design

200W

TDP

208W

550 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.1 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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