AMD Radeon Pro W5500 vs AMD Radeon R9 280

VS

AMD Radeon Pro W5500

AMD Radeon R9 280

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro W5500 and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro W5500 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 99% (1855MHz vs 933MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (125W vs 200W)

AMD Radeon R9 280 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro W5500 +56%

5.224 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280

3.344 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro W5500

VS

Radeon R9 280

Graphics Card

Feb 2020

Release Date

Mar 2014

Radeon Pro

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1744 MHz

Base Clock

827 MHz

1855 MHz

Boost Clock

933 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

22

Compute Units

28

-

1408

Shading Units

1792

88

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

59.36 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.86 GPixel/s

163.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

104.5 GTexel/s

10.45 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.224 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.344 TFLOPS

326.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

836.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

125W

TDP

200W

300 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 14

GPU Name

Tahiti

Navi 14 PRO XL

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

RDNA 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

28 nm

6.4 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

158 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.5

Shader Model

5.1

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