AMD Radeon R9 280 vs AMD FirePro W9100

VS

AMD Radeon R9 280

AMD FirePro W9100

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 16GB VRAM FirePro W9100 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

Lower TDP (200W vs 275W)

AMD FirePro W9100 's Advantages

More VRAM (16GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280

3.344 TFLOPS

FirePro W9100 +56%

5.238 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280

VS

FirePro W9100

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

-

933 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

512bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

44

-

1792

Shading Units

2816

112

TMUs

176

32

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

59.52 GPixel/s

104.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

163.7 GTexel/s

-

3.344 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.238 TFLOPS

836.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

2.619 TFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

275W

550 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Hawaii

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

GPU Variant

Hawaii GL44

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

438 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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