Radeon R9 280 vs FirePro W4300
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 4GB VRAM FirePro W4300 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 96.00GB/s)
1024 additional rendering cores
FirePro W4300 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 9 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)
Lower TDP (50W vs 200W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 280
+134%
3344
FirePro W4300
1428
Graphics Card
Mar 2014
Release Date
Dec 2015
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
1500 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
384bit
Memory Bus
128bit
240.0GB/s
Bandwidth
96.00GB/s
Render Config
28
Compute Units
12
1792
Shading Units
768
112
TMUs
48
32
ROPs
16
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
768 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
29.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
14.88 GPixel/s
104.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
44.64 GTexel/s
3.344 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1428 GFLOPS
836.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
89.28 GFLOPS
Board Design
200W
TDP
50W
550 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
2x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
Bonaire
Tahiti PRO3
(215-0821330)
GPU Variant
Bonaire PRO GL
GCN 1.0
Architecture
GCN 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
2.08 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
160 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
