AMD FirePro W5100 vs AMD Radeon R9 280X2

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM FirePro W5100 and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W5100 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (50W vs 375W)

AMD Radeon R9 280X2 's Advantages

Boost Clock1000MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W5100

1.428 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280X2 +186%

4.096 TFLOPS

FirePro W5100

VS

Radeon R9 280X2

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Unknown

FirePro

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

950 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

12

Compute Units

32

768

Shading Units

2048

48

TMUs

128

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

14.88 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

44.64 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1428 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.096 TFLOPS

89.28 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1024 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

Tahiti

Bonaire PRO GL

GPU Variant

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

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

Board Design

50W

TDP

375W

250 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

4x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

3x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.3

Shader Model

5.1

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