AMD FirePro W9100 vs AMD Radeon R9 280X2

VS

AMD FirePro W9100

AMD Radeon R9 280X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM FirePro W9100 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 W9100 's Advantages

More VRAM (16GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (275W vs 375W)

AMD Radeon R9 280X2 's Advantages

Boost Clock1000MHz

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W9100 +27%

5.238 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280X2

4.096 TFLOPS

FirePro W9100

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

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

384bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

32

-

2816

Shading Units

2048

176

TMUs

128

64

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

59.52 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

163.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.0 GTexel/s

-

5.238 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.096 TFLOPS

2.619 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1024 GFLOPS

Board Design

275W

TDP

375W

600 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 1x S-Video

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

3x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

Tahiti

Hawaii GL44

GPU Variant

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

438 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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