AMD Radeon R9 280 vs AMD Radeon Pro W6800

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 32GB VRAM Radeon Pro W6800 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 280 's Advantages

Lower TDP (200W vs 250W)

AMD Radeon Pro W6800 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 149% (2320MHz vs 933MHz)

More VRAM (32GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280

3.344 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro W6800 +432%

17.82 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280

VS

Radeon Pro W6800

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Jun 2021

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Generation

Radeon Pro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

827 MHz

Base Clock

2075 MHz

933 MHz

Boost Clock

2320 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

32GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

28

Compute Units

60

1792

Shading Units

3840

112

TMUs

240

32

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

60

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

768 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

29.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

222.7 GPixel/s

104.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

556.8 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

35.64 TFLOPS

3.344 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

17.82 TFLOPS

836.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1114 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Navi 21

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

7 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

26.8 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

520 mm²

Board Design

200W

TDP

250W

550 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

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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