AMD Radeon R9 280X2 vs AMD FirePro W5100

VS

AMD Radeon R9 280X2

AMD FirePro W5100

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X2 and 4GB VRAM FirePro W5100 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

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro W5100 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (50W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280X2 +186%

4.096 TFLOPS

FirePro W5100

1.428 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280X2

VS

FirePro W5100

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Mar 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

1500 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

12

-

2048

Shading Units

768

128

TMUs

48

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

14.88 GPixel/s

128.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

44.64 GTexel/s

-

4.096 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1428 GFLOPS

1024 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

89.28 GFLOPS

Board Design

375W

TDP

50W

750 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.2

3x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Bonaire

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

Bonaire PRO GL

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

160 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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