Radeon R9 280 vs Voodoo4 2 4200 PCI 16 MB
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 16MB VRAM Voodoo4 2 4200 PCI 16 MB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R9 280 's Advantages
Boost Clock933MHz
More VRAM (3GB vs 16GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 2.656GB/s)
1792 additional rendering cores
Voodoo4 2 4200 PCI 16 MB 's Advantages
Lower TDP (15W vs 200W)
Score
Graphics Card
Mar 2014
Release Date
Unknown
Volcanic Islands
Generation
Voodoo4-2
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
AGP 4x
Clock Speeds
827 MHz
Base Clock
-
933 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
166 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
16MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR
384bit
Memory Bus
64bit
240.0GB/s
Bandwidth
2.656GB/s
Render Config
28
Compute Units
-
1792
Shading Units
-
112
TMUs
2
32
ROPs
2
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
768 KB
L2 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
29.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
332.0 MPixel/s
104.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
332.0 MTexel/s
3.344 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
836.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
200W
TDP
15W
550 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
2x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
VSA-101
Tahiti PRO3
(215-0821330)
GPU Variant
Daytona
(355-0025-221)
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Voodoo Scalable
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
180 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
0.014 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
112 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
6.0
4.6
OpenGL
1.1
1.2
OpenCL
N/A
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
5.1
Shader Model
-
