Radeon RX 5700 XT vs Radeon R9 280
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 5700 XT 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 5700 XT 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 4 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 104% (1905MHz vs 933MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)
768 additional rendering cores
Radeon R9 280 's Advantages
Lower TDP (200W vs 225W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX 5700 XT
+191%
9754
Radeon R9 280
3344
3DMark Time Spy
Radeon RX 5700 XT
+369%
9425
Radeon R9 280
2009
Graphics Card
Jul 2019
Release Date
Mar 2014
Navi
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1605 MHz
Base Clock
827 MHz
1905 MHz
Boost Clock
933 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
3GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
384bit
448.0GB/s
Bandwidth
240.0GB/s
Render Config
40
Compute Units
28
2560
Shading Units
1792
160
TMUs
112
64
ROPs
32
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
4 MB
L2 Cache
768 KB
Theoretical Performance
121.9 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
29.86 GPixel/s
304.8 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
104.5 GTexel/s
19.51 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
9.754 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.344 TFLOPS
609.6 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
836.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
225W
TDP
200W
550 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
2x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Navi 10
GPU Name
Tahiti
Navi 10 XT
(215-0917210)
GPU Variant
Tahiti PRO3
(215-0821330)
RDNA 1.0
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
7 nm
Process Size
28 nm
10.3 billion
Transistors
4.313 billion
251 mm²
Die Size
352 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
OpenCL
1.2
1.3
Vulkan
1.2
6.5
Shader Model
5.1
