
Radeon R9 280X and FirePro W7000 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 280X vs FirePro W7000
Radeon R9 280X
6012
FirePro W7000
4417
Radeon R9 280X
FirePro W7000
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
Thaiti XTL
Pitcairn
Market segment
Desktop
Workstation
Release date
October 2013
June 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
1x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
1000 MHz
-
Core clock speed
-
950 MHz
Floating-point performance
4,096 gflops
2,432 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
4,313 million
2,800 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2048
1280
Power consumption (TDP)
250 Watt
350 Watt
Texture fill rate
128.0
76.00
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
3 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
-
4800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
288 GB/s
153.6 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
4x DisplayPort
Eyefinity
+
-
DisplayPort count
-
4
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
-
-
StereoOutput3D
-
1
TressFX
1
-
TrueAudio
+
-
UVD
+
-
ZeroCore
-
-