AMD Radeon R9 280X vs AMD Radeon Pro WX 8100

VS

AMD Radeon R9 280X

AMD Radeon Pro WX 8100

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X and 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro WX 8100 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro WX 8100 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 50% (1500MHz vs 1000MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (230W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280X

4.096 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro WX 8100 +162%

10.75 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280X

VS

Radeon Pro WX 8100

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Dec 2017

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Radeon Pro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

1200 MHz

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

384bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

56

-

2048

Shading Units

3584

128

TMUs

224

32

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

96.00 GPixel/s

128.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

336.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

21.50 TFLOPS

4.096 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.75 TFLOPS

1024 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

672.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

230W

600 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Vega 10

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

Vega 10 XL (215-0894216)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 5.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

12.5 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

495 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

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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