AMD Radeon R9 290X vs AMD FirePro R5000

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X and 2GB VRAM FirePro R5000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290X 's Advantages

Released 8 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 102.4GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro R5000 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 290W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X +344%

5.632 TFLOPS

FirePro R5000

1.267 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X

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FirePro R5000

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Feb 2013

Volcanic Islands

Generation

FirePro Remote

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

102.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

44

Compute Units

12

2816

Shading Units

768

176

TMUs

48

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

26.40 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

39.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1267 GFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

79.20 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

Pitcairn

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

Pitcairn LE GL

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

290W

TDP

150W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.3

Shader Model

5.1

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