AMD Radeon Pro W5500M vs AMD Radeon R9 280

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro W5500M and AMD Radeon R9 280 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon Pro W5500M

AMD Radeon R9 280

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro W5500M

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 11 month(s) later
Around 55% higher boost clock speed: 1450 MHz vs 933 MHz
1221.1x more texture fill rate: 127.6 GTexel/s vs 104.5 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 28 nm
2.4x lower typical power consumption: 85 Watt vs 200 Watt
Around 33% higher maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 3 GB
Around 20% higher memory clock speed: 1500 MHz (12000 MHz effective) vs 1250 MHz
Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3356 vs 3337
Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3356 vs 3337
Around 25% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 9943 vs 7957
Around 25% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 9943 vs 7957

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	10 Feb 2020 vs 4 March 2014
Boost clock speed	1450 MHz vs 933 MHz
Texture fill rate	127.6 GTexel/s vs 104.5 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	85 Watt vs 200 Watt
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 3 GB
Memory clock speed	1500 MHz (12000 MHz effective) vs 1250 MHz
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3715 vs 3698
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3715 vs 3698
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3356 vs 3337
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3356 vs 3337
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	9943 vs 7957
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	9943 vs 7957

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 280

Around 27% higher pipelines: 1792 vs 1408

Pipelines	1792 vs 1408

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro W5500M
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 280

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3715

3698

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3715

3698

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3356

3337

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3356

3337

GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

9943

7957

GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

9943

7957

Name	AMD Radeon Pro W5500M	AMD Radeon R9 280
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3715	3698
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3715	3698
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3356	3337
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3356	3337
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	9943	7957
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	9943	7957
Geekbench - OpenCL	45724
PassMark - G3D Mark		5562
PassMark - G2D Mark		665
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		67.829
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		1266.685
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		6.495
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		79.909
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		365.384
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		2009

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon Pro W5500M	AMD Radeon R9 280
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 1.0	GCN 1.0
Code name	Navi 14	Tahiti
Launch date	10 Feb 2020	4 March 2014
Place in performance rating	400	423
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Design		AMD Radeon R9 200 Series
Launch price (MSRP)		$279
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1450 MHz	933 MHz
Compute units	22
Core clock speed	1000 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	255.2 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	8.166 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	4.083 TFLOPS
Pipelines	1408	1792
Pixel fill rate	46.40 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	127.6 GTexel/s	104.5 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	85 Watt	200 Watt
Transistor count	6400 million	4,313 million
Floating-point performance		3,344 gflops
Stream Processors		1792
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x8	PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	1 x 6-pin + 1 x 8-pin
Bus support		PCIe 3.0
Length		275 mm
API support
DirectX	12.1	12
OpenCL	2.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Shader Model	6.5
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	3 GB
Memory bandwidth	192.0 GB/s	240 GB/s
Memory bus width	128 bit	384 Bit
Memory clock speed	1500 MHz (12000 MHz effective)	1250 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR5
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
CrossFire
DDMA audio
FreeSync
HD3D
LiquidVR
TressFX
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)