Radeon RX 570 vs Radeon R9 280
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 570 and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon RX 570 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 1 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 33% (1244MHz vs 933MHz)
More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)
256 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (150W vs 200W)
Radeon R9 280 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX 570
+52%
5095
Radeon R9 280
3344
3DMark Time Spy
Radeon RX 570
+91%
3851
Radeon R9 280
2009
Graphics Card
Apr 2017
Release Date
Mar 2014
Polaris
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1168 MHz
Base Clock
827 MHz
1244 MHz
Boost Clock
933 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
3GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
384bit
224.0GB/s
Bandwidth
240.0GB/s
Render Config
32
Compute Units
28
2048
Shading Units
1792
128
TMUs
112
32
ROPs
32
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
768 KB
Theoretical Performance
39.81 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
29.86 GPixel/s
159.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
104.5 GTexel/s
5.095 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
5.095 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.344 TFLOPS
318.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
836.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
150W
TDP
200W
450 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
2x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Polaris 20
GPU Name
Tahiti
Polaris 20 XL
(215-0910052)
GPU Variant
Tahiti PRO3
(215-0821330)
GCN 4.0
Architecture
GCN 1.0
GlobalFoundries
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
28 nm
5.7 billion
Transistors
4.313 billion
232 mm²
Die Size
352 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
Vulkan
1.2
6.4
Shader Model
5.1
