Radeon R9 280 vs Radeon Pro Duo Polaris
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro Duo Polaris to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R9 280 's Advantages
Boost Clock933MHz
Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)
Lower TDP (200W vs 250W)
Radeon Pro Duo Polaris 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 1 months late
More VRAM (16GB vs 3GB)
512 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 280
3344
Radeon Pro Duo Polaris
+71%
5728
Graphics Card
Mar 2014
Release Date
Apr 2017
Volcanic Islands
Generation
Radeon Pro GCN
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
827 MHz
Base Clock
-
933 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
384bit
Memory Bus
256bit
240.0GB/s
Bandwidth
224.0GB/s
Render Config
28
Compute Units
36
1792
Shading Units
2304
112
TMUs
144
32
ROPs
32
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
768 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
29.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
39.78 GPixel/s
104.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
179.0 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
5.728 TFLOPS
3.344 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.728 TFLOPS
836.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
358.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
200W
TDP
250W
550 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
1x DVI
2x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
Ellesmere
Tahiti PRO3
(215-0821330)
GPU Variant
Ellesmere Gemini GL
GCN 1.0
Architecture
GCN 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
28 nm
Process Size
14 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
5.7 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
232 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
2.1
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
5.1
Shader Model
6.7
