
Radeon R9 280 and FirePro W2100 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 280 vs FirePro W2100
Radeon R9 280
5725
FirePro W2100
930
Radeon R9 280
FirePro W2100
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name
Tahiti
Mars
Market segment
Desktop
Workstation
Release date
March 2014
October 2015
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
PCIe 3.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
1 x 6-pin + 1 x 8-pin
None
Boost clock speed
933 MHz
680 MHz
Core clock speed
-
680 MHz
Floating-point performance
3,344 gflops
435.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
4,313 million
950 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1792
320
Power consumption (TDP)
200 Watt
26 Watt
Texture fill rate
104.5
13.60
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
3 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1250 MHz
1800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
240 GB/s
28.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
2x DisplayPort
Eyefinity
1
-
DisplayPort count
-
2
Dual-link DVI support
-
1
HDMI
+
-
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
DirectX® 12
12 (11_1)
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
+
1.2.131
AppAcceleration
-
+
CrossFire
1
-
DDMA audio
+
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
+
-
LiquidVR
1
-
PowerTune
-
-
TressFX
1
-
TrueAudio
+
-
UVD
+
-
ZeroCore
-
-