Radeon R9 280X and FirePro W9000 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 280X vs FirePro W9000
Radeon R9 280X
6012
FirePro W9000
6322
Radeon R9 280X
FirePro W9000
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
Thaiti XTL
Tahiti
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 + 1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
1000 MHz
-
Core clock speed
-
975 MHz
Floating-point performance
4,096 gflops
3,994 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
4,313 million
4,313 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2048
2048
Power consumption (TDP)
250 Watt
350 Watt
Texture fill rate
128.0
124.8
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
3 GB
6 GB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
384 Bit
Memory clock speed
-
5500 MHz
Memory bandwidth
288 GB/s
264 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
6x mini-DisplayPort, 1x SDI
Eyefinity
+
-
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
-
-