AMD Radeon R9 280 vs AMD Radeon Pro W5500

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro W5500 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 280 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon Pro W5500 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 99% (1855MHz vs 933MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (125W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280

3.344 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro W5500 +56%

5.224 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280

VS

Radeon Pro W5500

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Feb 2020

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Radeon Pro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

827 MHz

Base Clock

1744 MHz

933 MHz

Boost Clock

1855 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

28

Compute Units

22

1792

Shading Units

1408

112

TMUs

88

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

29.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

59.36 GPixel/s

104.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

163.2 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

10.45 TFLOPS

3.344 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.224 TFLOPS

836.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

326.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Navi 14

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

GPU Variant

Navi 14 PRO XL

GCN 1.0

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

7 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

6.4 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

158 mm²

Board Design

200W

TDP

125W

550 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.5

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