AMD Radeon R9 290X vs AMD FirePro W8000
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Oct 2013
Jun 2012
Generation
Volcanic Islands
FirePro
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
1375 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
512bit
256bit
Bandwidth
320.0GB/s
176.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
44
28
Shading Units
2816
1792
TMUs
176
112
ROPs
64
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
1024 KB
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
64.00 GPixel/s
28.80 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
176.0 GTexel/s
100.8 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
5.632 TFLOPS
3.226 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
704.0 GFLOPS
806.4 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Hawaii
Tahiti
GPU Variant
Hawaii XT(215-0852000)
Tahiti PRO GL
Architecture
GCN 2.0
GCN 1.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
6.2 billion
4.313 billion
Die Size
438 mm²
352 mm²
Board Design
TDP
290W
225W
Suggested PSU
600 W
550 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
4x DisplayPort 1.21x SDI
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
2x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.1
1.2
Vulkan
1.2.170
1.2
Shader Model
6.5
5.1