Radeon X1650 GT vs Radeon R9 280
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM Radeon X1650 GT and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R9 280 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock933MHz
More VRAM (3GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
1792 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
May 2007
Release Date
Mar 2014
Radeon R500 PCIe
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
827 MHz
-
Boost Clock
933 MHz
400 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
128MB
Memory Size
3GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
384bit
12.80GB/s
Bandwidth
240.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
28
-
Shading Units
1792
8
TMUs
112
8
ROPs
32
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
-
L2 Cache
768 KB
Theoretical Performance
3.200 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
29.86 GPixel/s
3.200 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
104.5 GTexel/s
-
FP32 (float)
3.344 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
836.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
200W
200 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x DVI
2x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
RV560
GPU Name
Tahiti
RV560 GT
GPU Variant
Tahiti PRO3
(215-0821330)
Ultra-Threaded SE
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.312 billion
Transistors
4.313 billion
230 mm²
Die Size
352 mm²
Graphics Features
9.0c (9_3)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
2.1
OpenGL
4.6
N/A
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
3.0
Shader Model
5.1
