AMD Radeon R9 280 vs ATI Mobility FireGL V5725

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 280 and ATI Mobility FireGL V5725 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 280

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 2 month(s) later
  • 19.2x more texture fill rate: 104.5 GTexel / s vs 5.44 GTexel / s
  • 14.9x more pipelines: 1792 vs 120
  • 20.5x better floating-point performance: 3,344 gflops vs 163.2 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 55 nm
  • 12x more maximum memory size: 3 GB vs 256 MB
  • 25.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 5567 vs 219
  • Around 64% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 665 vs 405
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 4 March 2014 vs 1 January 2009
Texture fill rate 104.5 GTexel / s vs 5.44 GTexel / s
Pipelines 1792 vs 120
Floating-point performance 3,344 gflops vs 163.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 55 nm
Maximum memory size 3 GB vs 256 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 5567 vs 219
PassMark - G2D Mark 665 vs 405

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility FireGL V5725

  • Around 28% higher memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 1250 MHz
Memory clock speed 1600 MHz vs 1250 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R9 280
GPU 2: ATI Mobility FireGL V5725

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
5567
219
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
665
405
Name AMD Radeon R9 280 ATI Mobility FireGL V5725
PassMark - G3D Mark 5567 219
PassMark - G2D Mark 665 405
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 67.829
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1266.685
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 6.495
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 79.909
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 365.384
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 7957
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3698
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3337
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 7957
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3698
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3337
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 2009

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon R9 280 ATI Mobility FireGL V5725

Essentials

Architecture GCN 1.0 TeraScale
Code name Tahiti M86
Design AMD Radeon R9 200 Series
Launch date 4 March 2014 1 January 2009
Launch price (MSRP) $279
Place in performance rating 422 388
Type Desktop Mobile workstation

Technical info

Boost clock speed 933 MHz
Floating-point performance 3,344 gflops 163.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 55 nm
Pipelines 1792 120
Stream Processors 1792
Texture fill rate 104.5 GTexel / s 5.44 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 200 Watt
Transistor count 4,313 million 378 million
Core clock speed 680 MHz

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort No outputs
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCIe 3.0
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Length 275 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1 x 6-pin + 1 x 8-pin
Laptop size medium sized

API support

DirectX 12 10.1
OpenGL 4.5 3.3
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 3 GB 256 MB
Memory bandwidth 240 GB/s 25.6 GB / s
Memory bus width 384 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1250 MHz 1600 MHz
Memory type GDDR5
Shared memory 0

Technologies

AMD Eyefinity
CrossFire
DDMA audio
FreeSync
HD3D
LiquidVR
TressFX
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)