Radeon R9 280 vs Radeon RX 7500 XT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 6GB VRAM Radeon RX 7500 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R9 280 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 216.0GB/s)
768 additional rendering cores
Radeon RX 7500 XT 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 147% (2300MHz vs 933MHz)
More VRAM (6GB vs 3GB)
Lower TDP (100W vs 200W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 280
3344
Radeon RX 7500 XT
+181%
9421
Graphics Card
Mar 2014
Release Date
Unknown
Volcanic Islands
Generation
Navi III
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
827 MHz
Base Clock
1452 MHz
933 MHz
Boost Clock
2300 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
2250 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
6GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
384bit
Memory Bus
96bit
240.0GB/s
Bandwidth
216.0GB/s
Render Config
28
Compute Units
16
1792
Shading Units
1024
112
TMUs
64
32
ROPs
32
-
RT Cores
16
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
128 KB per Array
768 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
L3 Cache
64 MB
Theoretical Performance
29.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
73.60 GPixel/s
104.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
147.2 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
18.84 TFLOPS
3.344 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
9.421 TFLOPS
836.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
294.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
200W
TDP
100W
550 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x DVI
2x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1a
2x DisplayPort 2.1
1x USB Type-C
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
Navi 33
Tahiti PRO3
(215-0821330)
GPU Variant
Navi 33
GCN 1.0
Architecture
RDNA 3.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
6 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
13.3 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
204 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
2.2
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
5.1
Shader Model
6.7
