AMD FirePro S9300 X2 vs AMD Radeon R9 280X

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM FirePro S9300 X2 and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro S9300 X2 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

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

2048 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 280X 's Advantages

Boost Clock1000MHz

Lower TDP (250W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro S9300 X2 +94%

7.987 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280X

4.096 TFLOPS

FirePro S9300 X2

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Radeon R9 280X

Graphics Card

Mar 2016

Release Date

Oct 2013

FirePro

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

850 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

500 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

3GB

HBM

Memory Type

GDDR5

4096bit

Memory Bus

384bit

512.0GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

64

Compute Units

32

4096

Shading Units

2048

256

TMUs

128

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

62.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

249.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

7.987 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.096 TFLOPS

499.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1024 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Capsaicin

GPU Name

Tahiti

Capsaicin XT

GPU Variant

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

GCN 3.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

8.9 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

596 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

250W

700 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

No outputs

Outputs

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

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.0

Shader Model

5.1

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