AMD FirePro W4300 vs AMD Radeon R9 280

VS

AMD FirePro W4300

AMD Radeon R9 280

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM FirePro W4300 and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W4300 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (50W vs 200W)

AMD Radeon R9 280 's Advantages

Boost Clock933MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W4300

1.428 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280 +134%

3.344 TFLOPS

FirePro W4300

VS

Radeon R9 280

Graphics Card

Dec 2015

Release Date

Mar 2014

FirePro

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

827 MHz

-

Boost Clock

933 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

28

-

768

Shading Units

1792

48

TMUs

112

16

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

14.88 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.86 GPixel/s

44.64 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

104.5 GTexel/s

-

1428 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.344 TFLOPS

89.28 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

836.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

200W

250 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

Tahiti

Bonaire PRO GL

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.3

Shader Model

5.1

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