Radeon R9 280 vs FirePro S7150
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 8GB VRAM FirePro S7150 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R9 280 's Advantages
Boost Clock933MHz
Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)
FirePro S7150 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 11 months late
More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)
256 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (150W vs 200W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 280
3344
FirePro S7150
+12%
3768
Graphics Card
Mar 2014
Release Date
Feb 2016
Volcanic Islands
Generation
FirePro
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
827 MHz
Base Clock
-
933 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
384bit
Memory Bus
256bit
240.0GB/s
Bandwidth
160.0GB/s
Render Config
28
Compute Units
32
1792
Shading Units
2048
112
TMUs
128
32
ROPs
32
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
768 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
29.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
29.44 GPixel/s
104.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
117.8 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
7.537 TFLOPS
3.344 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.768 TFLOPS
836.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
235.5 GFLOPS
Board Design
200W
TDP
150W
550 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
2x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
No outputs
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
Tonga
Tahiti PRO3
(215-0821330)
GPU Variant
Tonga XT GL
GCN 1.0
Architecture
GCN 3.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
5 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
366 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
2.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.2
5.1
Shader Model
6.3
