
FirePro W9100 and Radeon R9 280X - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score FirePro W9100 vs Radeon R9 280X
FirePro W9100
8226
Radeon R9 280X
6012
FirePro W9100
Radeon R9 280X
Architecture
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name
Hawaii
Thaiti XTL
Market segment
Workstation
Desktop
Release date
March 2014
October 2013
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
PCIe 3.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
1 x 6-pin + 1 x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
-
1000 MHz
Core clock speed
930 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
5,238 gflops
4,096 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
6,200 million
4,313 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2816
2048
Power consumption (TDP)
750 Watt
250 Watt
Texture fill rate
163.7
128.0
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
16 GB
3 GB
Memory bus width
512 Bit
384 Bit
Memory clock speed
5000 MHz
-
Memory bandwidth
320 GB/s
288 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
6x mini-DisplayPort, 1x S-Video
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
Eyefinity
-
+
Dual-link DVI support
1
-
HD сomponent video output
1
-
HDMI
-
+
DisplayPort support
-
+
DirectX
12 (12_0)
DirectX® 12
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
2.0
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.3
5.1
Vulkan
1.2.131
+
AppAcceleration
-
+
CrossFire
-
1
DDMA audio
-
+
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
-
1
HD3D
-
+
LiquidVR
-
1
PowerTune
-
-
StereoOutput3D
1
-
TressFX
-
1
TrueAudio
-
+
UVD
-
+
ZeroCore
-
-