Radeon R9 280 vs Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R9 280 's Advantages
Lower TDP (200W vs 345W)
Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 80% (1677MHz vs 933MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)
2304 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 280
3344
Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling
+310%
13740
Graphics Card
Mar 2014
Release Date
Aug 2017
Volcanic Islands
Generation
Vega
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
827 MHz
Base Clock
1406 MHz
933 MHz
Boost Clock
1677 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
945 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
HBM2
384bit
Memory Bus
2048bit
240.0GB/s
Bandwidth
483.8GB/s
Render Config
28
Compute Units
64
1792
Shading Units
4096
112
TMUs
256
32
ROPs
64
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
768 KB
L2 Cache
4 MB
Theoretical Performance
29.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
107.3 GPixel/s
104.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
429.3 GTexel/s
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FP16 (half)
27.48 TFLOPS
3.344 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
13.74 TFLOPS
836.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
858.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
200W
TDP
345W
550 W
Suggested PSU
700 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
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
Vega 10
Tahiti PRO3
(215-0821330)
GPU Variant
Vega 10 XTX
GCN 1.0
Architecture
GCN 5.0
TSMC
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
28 nm
Process Size
14 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
12.5 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
495 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
2.1
1.2
Vulkan
1.2
5.1
Shader Model
6.4
