AMD FirePro W5000 vs AMD Radeon R9 280X2

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro W5000 and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W5000 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 375W)

AMD Radeon R9 280X2 's Advantages

Boost Clock1000MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 102.4GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W5000

1.267 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280X2 +223%

4.096 TFLOPS

FirePro W5000

VS

Radeon R9 280X2

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

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

102.4GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

12

Compute Units

32

768

Shading Units

2048

48

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

26.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

39.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1267 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.096 TFLOPS

79.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1024 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

Tahiti

Pitcairn LE GL

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

Board Design

75W

TDP

375W

250 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

1x DVI 2x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

3x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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