AMD Radeon R9 280 vs AMD Radeon Pro WX 5100

VS

AMD Radeon R9 280

AMD Radeon Pro WX 5100

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro WX 5100 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 280 's Advantages

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

AMD Radeon Pro WX 5100 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 16% (1086MHz vs 933MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (75W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280

3.344 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro WX 5100 +16%

3.892 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280

VS

Radeon Pro WX 5100

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Nov 2016

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Radeon Pro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

827 MHz

Base Clock

713 MHz

933 MHz

Boost Clock

1086 MHz

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

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

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

34.75 GPixel/s

104.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

121.6 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

3.892 TFLOPS

3.344 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.892 TFLOPS

836.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

243.3 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

75W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Ellesmere

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

GPU Variant

Polaris 10 PRO GL (215-0876144)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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