Radeon R9 280 vs Arc A580
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 8GB VRAM Arc A580 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Arc A580 's Advantages
Released 9 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 114% (2000MHz vs 933MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)
1280 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (175W vs 200W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 280
3344
Arc A580
+267%
12290
3DMark Time Spy
Radeon R9 280
2009
Arc A580
+440%
10855
Graphics Card
Mar 2014
Release Date
Oct 2023
Volcanic Islands
Generation
Alchemist(Arc 5)
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
827 MHz
Base Clock
1700 MHz
933 MHz
Boost Clock
2000 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
384bit
Memory Bus
256bit
240.0GB/s
Bandwidth
512.0GB/s
Render Config
28
Compute Units
-
1792
Shading Units
3072
112
TMUs
192
32
ROPs
96
-
Tensor Cores
384
-
RT Cores
24
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
768 KB
L2 Cache
8 MB
Theoretical Performance
29.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
192.0 GPixel/s
104.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
384.0 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
24.58 TFLOPS
3.344 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
12.29 TFLOPS
836.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1.536 TFLOPS
Board Design
200W
TDP
175W
550 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
2x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 2.0
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
DG2-512
Tahiti PRO3
(215-0821330)
GPU Variant
ACM-G10
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Generation 12.7
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
6 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
21.7 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
406 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
5.1
Shader Model
6.6
