Product Compare

ATI FirePro V9800 vs AMD Radeon R9 290

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Sep 2010 Nov 2013
Generation FirePro Volcanic Islands
Type Desktop Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock 1150 MHz 1250 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 4GB 4GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Bus 256bit 512bit
Bandwidth 147.2GB/s 320.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 20 40
Shading Units 1600 2560
TMUs 80 160
ROPs 32 64
L1 Cache 8 KB (per CU) 16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache 512 KB 1024 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 27.20 GPixel/s 60.61 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 68.00 GTexel/s 151.5 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 2.720 TFLOPS 4.849 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 544.0 GFLOPS 606.1 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Cypress Hawaii
GPU Variant Cypress XT GL Hawaii PRO(215-0852020)
Architecture TeraScale 2 GCN 2.0
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Process Size 40 nm 28 nm
Transistors 2.154 billion 6.2 billion
Die Size 334 mm² 438 mm²
Board Design
TDP 250W 275W
Suggested PSU 600 W 600 W
Outputs 6x mini-DisplayPort 1.11x S-Video 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 12 (12_0)
OpenGL 4.4 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 2.0
Vulkan N/A 1.2
Shader Model 5.0 6.3