FirePro S7000 vs Radeon R9 280X2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM FirePro S7000 and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
FirePro S7000 's Advantages
More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)
Lower TDP (150W vs 375W)
Radeon R9 280X2 's Advantages
Boost Clock1000MHz
Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)
768 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FirePro S7000
2432
Radeon R9 280X2
+68%
4096
Graphics Card
Aug 2012
Release Date
Unknown
FirePro
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
950 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1000 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
3GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
384bit
153.6GB/s
Bandwidth
288.0GB/s
Render Config
20
Compute Units
32
1280
Shading Units
2048
80
TMUs
128
32
ROPs
32
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
512 KB
L2 Cache
768 KB
Theoretical Performance
30.40 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
32.00 GPixel/s
76.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
128.0 GTexel/s
2.432 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.096 TFLOPS
152.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1024 GFLOPS
Board Design
150W
TDP
375W
450 W
Suggested PSU
750 W
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
3x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Pitcairn
GPU Name
Tahiti
Pitcairn XT GL
(215-0828073)
GPU Variant
Tahiti XTL
(215-0821065)
GCN 1.0
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
2.8 billion
Transistors
4.313 billion
212 mm²
Die Size
352 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
Vulkan
1.2
5.1
Shader Model
5.1
