Radeon R9 280 vs Radeon RX 480
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 480 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon RX 480 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 36% (1266MHz vs 933MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)
512 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (150W vs 200W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 280
3344
Radeon RX 480
+74%
5834
3DMark Time Spy
Radeon R9 280
2009
Radeon RX 480
+105%
4137
Graphics Card
Mar 2014
Release Date
Jun 2016
Volcanic Islands
Generation
Arctic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
827 MHz
Base Clock
1120 MHz
933 MHz
Boost Clock
1266 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
384bit
Memory Bus
256bit
240.0GB/s
Bandwidth
256.0GB/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
40.51 GPixel/s
104.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
182.3 GTexel/s
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FP16 (half)
5.834 TFLOPS
3.344 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.834 TFLOPS
836.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
364.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
200W
TDP
150W
550 W
Suggested PSU
450 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
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
Ellesmere
Tahiti PRO3
(215-0821330)
GPU Variant
Polaris 10 XT
(215-0876184)
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
1.2
5.1
Shader Model
6.4
