AMD Radeon Pro WX 5100 vs AMD Radeon R9 280

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AMD Radeon Pro WX 5100 AMD Radeon R9 280

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro WX 5100 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 WX 5100 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 16% (1086MHz vs 933MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (75W vs 200W)

AMD Radeon R9 280 's Advantages

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

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro WX 5100 +16%

3.892 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280

3.344 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro WX 5100

VS

Radeon R9 280

Graphics Card

Nov 2016

Release Date

Mar 2014

Radeon Pro

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

713 MHz

Base Clock

827 MHz

1086 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

-

SM Count

-

28

Compute Units

28

1792

Shading Units

1792

112

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

34.75 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.86 GPixel/s

121.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

104.5 GTexel/s

3.892 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.892 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.344 TFLOPS

243.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

836.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

Tahiti

Polaris 10 PRO GL (215-0876144)

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

200W

250 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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