AMD Radeon R9 280X vs AMD Radeon Pro WX 2100

VS

AMD Radeon R9 280X

AMD Radeon Pro WX 2100

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X and 2GB VRAM Radeon Pro WX 2100 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 280X 's Advantages

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 48.00GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon Pro WX 2100 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 22% (1219MHz vs 1000MHz)

Lower TDP (35W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280X +228%

4.096 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro WX 2100

1.248 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280X

VS

Radeon Pro WX 2100

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Jun 2017

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Radeon Pro Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

925 MHz

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

1219 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

64bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

48.00GB/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

19.50 GPixel/s

128.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

39.01 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

1248 GFLOPS

4.096 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1248 GFLOPS

1024 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

78.02 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

35W

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DisplayPort 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Lexa

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

Lexa PRO GL

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

103 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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