Radeon R9 280 vs Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R9 280 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 9 months late
Lower TDP (200W vs 300W)
Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 13% (1050MHz vs 933MHz)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)
256 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 280
3344
Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
+28%
4301
Graphics Card
Mar 2014
Release Date
Jun 2012
Volcanic Islands
Generation
Southern Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
827 MHz
Base Clock
1000 MHz
933 MHz
Boost Clock
1050 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
3GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
384bit
Memory Bus
384bit
240.0GB/s
Bandwidth
288.0GB/s
Render Config
28
Compute Units
32
1792
Shading Units
2048
112
TMUs
128
32
ROPs
32
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
768 KB
L2 Cache
768 KB
Theoretical Performance
29.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
33.60 GPixel/s
104.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
134.4 GTexel/s
3.344 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.301 TFLOPS
836.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1075 GFLOPS
Board Design
200W
TDP
300W
550 W
Suggested PSU
700 W
1x DVI
2x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
Tahiti
Tahiti PRO3
(215-0821330)
GPU Variant
Tahiti XT2
(215-0821065)
GCN 1.0
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
4.313 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
352 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
Vulkan
1.2
5.1
Shader Model
5.1
