AMD FirePro W7100 vs AMD Radeon R9 280

VS

AMD FirePro W7100

AMD Radeon R9 280

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM FirePro W7100 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 W7100 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (150W vs 200W)

AMD Radeon R9 280 's Advantages

Boost Clock933MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W7100

3.297 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280 +1%

3.344 TFLOPS

FirePro W7100

VS

Radeon R9 280

Graphics Card

Aug 2014

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

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

160.0GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

28

-

1792

Shading Units

1792

112

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.44 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.86 GPixel/s

103.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

104.5 GTexel/s

3.297 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.297 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.344 TFLOPS

206.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

836.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

200W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

4x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Tonga

GPU Name

Tahiti

Tonga PRO GL

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

GCN 3.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

366 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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