AMD Radeon R9 280 vs AMD FirePro S7150

VS

AMD Radeon R9 280

AMD FirePro S7150

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 8GB VRAM FirePro S7150 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 280 's Advantages

Boost Clock933MHz

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

AMD FirePro S7150 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

256 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280

3.344 TFLOPS

FirePro S7150 +12%

3.768 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280

VS

FirePro S7150

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Feb 2016

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

1250 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

32

-

1792

Shading Units

2048

112

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.44 GPixel/s

104.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

117.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

7.537 TFLOPS

3.344 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.768 TFLOPS

836.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

235.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

150W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Tonga

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

GPU Variant

Tonga XT GL

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

5 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

366 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.3

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