AMD FirePro S9050 vs AMD Radeon R9 280X

VS

AMD FirePro S9050

AMD Radeon R9 280X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM FirePro S9050 and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro S9050 's Advantages

Released 10 months late

More VRAM (12GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (225W vs 250W)

AMD Radeon R9 280X 's Advantages

Boost Clock1000MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 264.0GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro S9050

3.226 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280X +26%

4.096 TFLOPS

FirePro S9050

VS

Radeon R9 280X

Graphics Card

Aug 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

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

384bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/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

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

100.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.0 GTexel/s

-

3.226 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.096 TFLOPS

806.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1024 GFLOPS

Board Design

225W

TDP

250W

550 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Tahiti

Tahiti PRO 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

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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