AMD Radeon R9 280 vs ATI FirePro 2260 PCI

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 256MB VRAM FirePro 2260 PCI to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 280 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock933MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

1752 additional rendering cores

ATI FirePro 2260 PCI 's Advantages

Lower TDP (15W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280 +8260%

3.344 TFLOPS

FirePro 2260 PCI

0.04 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280

VS

FirePro 2260 PCI

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Jan 2008

Volcanic Islands

Generation

FirePro Multi-View

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCI

Clock Speeds

827 MHz

Base Clock

-

933 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

384bit

Memory Bus

64bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

8.000GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

28

Compute Units

2

1792

Shading Units

40

112

TMUs

4

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

29.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.000 GPixel/s

104.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.000 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.344 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

40.00 GFLOPS

836.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

RV620

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.181 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

67 mm²

Board Design

200W

TDP

15W

550 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

2x DisplayPort

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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