AMD Radeon R9 280 vs AMD FirePro S10000 Passive 12GB

VS

AMD Radeon R9 280

AMD FirePro S10000 Passive 12GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 6GB VRAM FirePro S10000 Passive 12GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 280 's Advantages

Lower TDP (200W vs 375W)

AMD FirePro S10000 Passive 12GB 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 2% (950MHz vs 933MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 3GB)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280

3.344 TFLOPS

FirePro S10000 Passive 12GB +1%

3.405 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280

VS

FirePro S10000 Passive 12GB

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Mar 2014

Volcanic Islands

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

827 MHz

Base Clock

825 MHz

933 MHz

Boost Clock

950 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

384bit

240.0GB/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)

768 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

30.40 GPixel/s

104.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

106.4 GTexel/s

-

3.344 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.405 TFLOPS

836.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

851.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

375W

550 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Tahiti

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

GPU Variant

Orthrus

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

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5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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