Radeon R9 280 vs CMP 30HX
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 6GB VRAM CMP 30HX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R9 280 's Advantages
384 additional rendering cores
CMP 30HX 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 91% (1785MHz vs 933MHz)
More VRAM (6GB vs 3GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)
Lower TDP (125W vs 200W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 280
3344
CMP 30HX
+50%
5027
Graphics Card
Mar 2014
Release Date
Feb 2021
Volcanic Islands
Generation
Mining GPUs
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x4
Clock Speeds
827 MHz
Base Clock
1530 MHz
933 MHz
Boost Clock
1785 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
6GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
384bit
Memory Bus
192bit
240.0GB/s
Bandwidth
336.0GB/s
Render Config
28
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
22
1792
Shading Units
1408
112
TMUs
88
32
ROPs
48
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
768 KB
L2 Cache
1536 KB
Theoretical Performance
29.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
85.68 GPixel/s
104.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
157.1 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
10.05 TFLOPS
3.344 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.027 TFLOPS
836.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
157.1 GFLOPS
Board Design
200W
TDP
125W
550 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x DVI
2x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
No outputs
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
TU116
Tahiti PRO3
(215-0821330)
GPU Variant
TU116-100-A1
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Turing
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
12 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
6.6 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
284 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
7.5
5.1
Shader Model
6.8
