Radeon R9 280 vs Radeon Pro WX 4100
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 4GB VRAM Radeon Pro WX 4100 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R9 280 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)
768 additional rendering cores
Radeon Pro WX 4100 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 8 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 29% (1201MHz vs 933MHz)
More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)
Lower TDP (50W vs 200W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 280
+35%
3344
Radeon Pro WX 4100
2460
3DMark Time Spy
Radeon R9 280
+32%
2009
Radeon Pro WX 4100
1520
Graphics Card
Mar 2014
Release Date
Nov 2016
Volcanic Islands
Generation
Radeon Pro
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
Clock Speeds
827 MHz
Base Clock
1125 MHz
933 MHz
Boost Clock
1201 MHz
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
16
1792
Shading Units
1024
112
TMUs
64
32
ROPs
16
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
768 KB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
Theoretical Performance
29.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
19.22 GPixel/s
104.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
76.86 GTexel/s
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FP16 (half)
2.460 TFLOPS
3.344 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.460 TFLOPS
836.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
153.7 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 1.4a
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
Baffin
Tahiti PRO3
(215-0821330)
GPU Variant
Baffin XT
GCN 1.0
Architecture
GCN 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
28 nm
Process Size
14 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
3 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
123 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
2.1
1.2
Vulkan
1.2
5.1
Shader Model
6.4
