Radeon R9 280 vs MTT S80
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 16GB VRAM MTT S80 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R9 280 's Advantages
Boost Clock933MHz
Lower TDP (200W vs 255W)
MTT S80 's Advantages
Released 9 years and 7 months late
More VRAM (16GB vs 3GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)
2304 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 280
3344
MTT S80
+341%
14750
Graphics Card
Mar 2014
Release Date
Oct 2023
Volcanic Islands
Generation
MUSA-Chunxiao
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x16
Clock Speeds
827 MHz
Base Clock
1800 MHz
933 MHz
Boost Clock
0 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
384bit
Memory Bus
256bit
240.0GB/s
Bandwidth
448.0GB/s
Render Config
28
Compute Units
32
-
SM Count
1792
Shading Units
4096
112
TMUs
256
32
ROPs
256
-
Tensor Cores
-
RT Cores
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
768 KB
L2 Cache
4 MB
Theoretical Performance
29.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
460.8 GPixel/s
104.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
460.8 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
29.49 TFLOPS
3.344 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
14.75 TFLOPS
836.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
230.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
200W
TDP
255W
550 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
1x DVI
2x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
MTT Gen 2
Tahiti PRO3
(215-0821330)
GPU Variant
GCN 1.0
Architecture
MUSA-Chunxiao
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
12 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
22 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
Unknown
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.4
-
CUDA
5.1
Shader Model
6.5
