
Radeon R9 280 and FirePro W4100 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 280 vs FirePro W4100
Radeon R9 280
5725
FirePro W4100
1579
Radeon R9 280
FirePro W4100
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name
Tahiti
Cape Verde
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 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1 x 6-pin + 1 x 8-pin
None
Boost clock speed
933 MHz
-
Core clock speed
-
630 MHz
Floating-point performance
3,344 gflops
645.1 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
4,313 million
1,500 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1792
512
Power consumption (TDP)
200 Watt
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
104.5
20.16
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
3 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1250 MHz
4000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
240 GB/s
72 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
4x mini-DisplayPort
Eyefinity
1
-
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
-
-