AMD Radeon R9 280X vs AMD FirePro RG220
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X and 512MB VRAM FirePro RG220 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon R9 280X 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock1000MHz
More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)
1968 additional rendering cores
AMD FirePro RG220 's Advantages
Lower TDP (35W vs 250W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 280X
+5020%
4.096 TFLOPS
FirePro RG220
0.08 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2013
Release Date
May 2010
Volcanic Islands
Generation
FirePro RG
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
850 MHz
Base Clock
-
1000 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
384bit
Memory Bus
256bit
288.0GB/s
Bandwidth
51.20GB/s
Render Config
32
Compute Units
1
-
-
-
2048
Shading Units
80
128
TMUs
8
32
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
768 KB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
32.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.000 GPixel/s
128.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
4.000 GTexel/s
-
-
-
4.096 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
80.00 GFLOPS
1024 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
250W
TDP
35W
600 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x DMS-59
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
M93
Tahiti XTL
(215-0821065)
GPU Variant
-
GCN 1.0
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
55 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
0.242 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
73 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
1.2
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
-
-
-
5.1
Shader Model
4.1
