AMD Radeon R9 280X vs ATI FirePro 2270 PCIe x1

VS

AMD Radeon R9 280X

ATI FirePro 2270 PCIe x1

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X and 512MB VRAM FirePro 2270 PCIe x1 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 280X 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1000MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 9.600GB/s)

1968 additional rendering cores

ATI FirePro 2270 PCIe x1 's Advantages

Lower TDP (15W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280X +4166%

4.096 TFLOPS

FirePro 2270 PCIe x1

0.096 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280X

VS

FirePro 2270 PCIe x1

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Jan 2011

Volcanic Islands

Generation

FirePro Multi-View

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x1

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

-

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

64bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

9.600GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

1

-

2048

Shading Units

80

128

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.400 GPixel/s

128.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.800 GTexel/s

-

4.096 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

96.00 GFLOPS

1024 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

250W

TDP

15W

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DMS-59

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Cedar

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

Cedar WS

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

59 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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