Radeon R9 280 vs Radeon HD 4750
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4750 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R9 280 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock933MHz
More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)
1152 additional rendering cores
Radeon HD 4750 's Advantages
Lower TDP (100W vs 200W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 280
+258%
3344
Radeon HD 4750
934
Graphics Card
Mar 2014
Release Date
Sep 2009
Volcanic Islands
Generation
Radeon R700
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
827 MHz
Base Clock
-
933 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
384bit
Memory Bus
128bit
240.0GB/s
Bandwidth
51.20GB/s
Render Config
28
Compute Units
8
1792
Shading Units
640
112
TMUs
32
32
ROPs
16
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
768 KB
L2 Cache
128 KB
Theoretical Performance
29.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
11.68 GPixel/s
104.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
23.36 GTexel/s
3.344 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
934.4 GFLOPS
836.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
186.9 GFLOPS
Board Design
200W
TDP
100W
550 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x DVI
2x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
RV740
Tahiti PRO3
(215-0821330)
GPU Variant
RV740 PRO
GCN 1.0
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
0.826 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
137 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
1.2
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
5.1
Shader Model
4.1
