AMD Radeon R9 280 vs AMD FirePro S7000

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 4GB VRAM FirePro S7000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 280 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock933MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro S7000 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (150W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280 +37%

3.344 TFLOPS

FirePro S7000

2.432 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280

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FirePro S7000

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Aug 2012

Volcanic Islands

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

827 MHz

Base Clock

-

933 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

28

Compute Units

20

1792

Shading Units

1280

112

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

29.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

30.40 GPixel/s

104.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

76.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.344 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.432 TFLOPS

836.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

152.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Pitcairn

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

GPU Variant

Pitcairn XT GL (215-0828073)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

200W

TDP

150W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

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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CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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