Radeon R9 280 and FirePro W5000 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 280 vs FirePro W5000
Radeon R9 280
5725
FirePro W5000
3066
Radeon R9 280
FirePro W5000
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
Tahiti
Pitcairn
Market segment
Desktop
Workstation
Release date
March 2014
August 2012
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
-
825 MHz
Floating-point performance
3,344 gflops
1,267 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
4,313 million
2,800 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1792
768
Power consumption (TDP)
200 Watt
75 Watt
Texture fill rate
104.5
39.60
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
3 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1250 MHz
3200 MHz
Memory bandwidth
240 GB/s
102.4 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
1x DVI, 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
-
-