AMD FirePro D500 vs AMD Radeon R9 280X
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon R9 280X 's Advantages
Boost Clock1000MHz
Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 243.8GB/s)
512 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (250W vs 274W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FirePro D500
2.227 TFLOPS
Radeon R9 280X
+83%
4.096 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2014
Release Date
Oct 2013
FirePro
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
850 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1000 MHz
1270 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
3GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
384bit
Memory Bus
384bit
243.8GB/s
Bandwidth
288.0GB/s
Render Config
24
Compute Units
32
-
-
-
1536
Shading Units
2048
96
TMUs
128
32
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
768 KB
L2 Cache
768 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
23.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
32.00 GPixel/s
69.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
128.0 GTexel/s
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-
-
2.227 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.096 TFLOPS
556.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1024 GFLOPS
Board Design
274W
TDP
250W
600 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x SDI
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
-
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
Tahiti
Tahiti LE GL
GPU Variant
Tahiti XTL
(215-0821065)
GCN 1.0
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
4.313 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
352 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
Vulkan
1.2
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-
-
5.1
Shader Model
5.1
