AMD Radeon R9 280X2 vs AMD FirePro S9150

VS

AMD Radeon R9 280X2

AMD FirePro S9150

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X2 and 16GB VRAM FirePro S9150 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

AMD FirePro S9150 's Advantages

More VRAM (16GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (235W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280X2

4.096 TFLOPS

FirePro S9150 +23%

5.069 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280X2

VS

FirePro S9150

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Aug 2014

Volcanic Islands

Generation

FirePro

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

1250 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

512bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

44

-

2048

Shading Units

2816

128

TMUs

176

32

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

57.60 GPixel/s

128.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

158.4 GTexel/s

-

4.096 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.069 TFLOPS

1024 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

2.534 TFLOPS

Board Design

375W

TDP

235W

750 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

No outputs

3x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Hawaii

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

Hawaii GL44

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.3

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