AMD Radeon R9 280 vs AMD FirePro RG220

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 512MB VRAM FirePro RG220 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 280 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock933MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

1712 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro RG220 's Advantages

Lower TDP (35W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280 +4080%

3.344 TFLOPS

FirePro RG220

0.08 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280

VS

FirePro RG220

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

May 2010

Volcanic Islands

Generation

FirePro RG

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

827 MHz

Base Clock

-

933 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

51.20GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

28

Compute Units

1

1792

Shading Units

80

112

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

29.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.000 GPixel/s

104.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.000 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.344 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

80.00 GFLOPS

836.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

M93

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.242 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

73 mm²

Board Design

200W

TDP

35W

550 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DMS-59

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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