AMD Radeon R9 280X2 vs AMD FirePro R5000

VS

AMD Radeon R9 280X2

AMD FirePro R5000

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X2 and 2GB VRAM FirePro R5000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 280X2 's Advantages

Boost Clock1000MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 102.4GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro R5000 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280X2 +223%

4.096 TFLOPS

FirePro R5000

1.267 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280X2

VS

FirePro R5000

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Feb 2013

Volcanic Islands

Generation

FirePro Remote

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

950 MHz

Base Clock

-

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

102.4GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

12

-

2048

Shading Units

768

128

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

26.40 GPixel/s

128.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

39.60 GTexel/s

-

4.096 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1267 GFLOPS

1024 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

79.20 GFLOPS

Board Design

375W

TDP

150W

750 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

3x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Pitcairn

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

Pitcairn LE GL

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

212 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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