AMD FirePro W8000 vs AMD Radeon R9 280X

GPU Specs Compare

G

AMD FirePro W8000

AMD 2012-06
G

AMD Radeon R9 280X

AMD 2013-10

Graphics Card

Release Date
Jun 2012
Oct 2013
Generation
FirePro
Volcanic Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Memory Clock
1375 MHz
1500 MHz
Base Clock
-
850 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1000 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
4GB
3GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
384bit
Bandwidth
176.0GB/s
288.0GB/s

Render Config

Compute Units
28
32
Shading Units
1792
2048
TMUs
112
128
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
512 KB
768 KB

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
28.80 GPixel/s
32.00 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
100.8 GTexel/s
128.0 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
3.226 TFLOPS
4.096 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
806.4 GFLOPS
1024 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
Tahiti
Tahiti
GPU Variant
Tahiti PRO GL
Tahiti XTL(215-0821065)
Architecture
GCN 1.0
GCN 1.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
4.313 billion
4.313 billion
Die Size
352 mm²
352 mm²

Board Design

TDP
225W
250W
Suggested PSU
550 W
600 W
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.21x SDI
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
Vulkan
1.2
1.2
Shader Model
5.1
5.1