AMD Radeon R9 280X vs AMD FirePro W600

VS

AMD Radeon R9 280X

AMD FirePro W600

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X and 2GB VRAM FirePro W600 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 280X 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1000MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro W600 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280X +433%

4.096 TFLOPS

FirePro W600

0.768 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280X

VS

FirePro W600

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Jun 2012

Volcanic Islands

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

-

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

8

-

2048

Shading Units

512

128

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.00 GPixel/s

128.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

24.00 GTexel/s

-

4.096 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

768.0 GFLOPS

1024 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

48.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

75W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Cape Verde

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

Cape Verde PRO GL

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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