AMD Radeon R9 280

This is a GPU manufactured with TSMC 28nm process, based on AMD GCN 1.0 architecture and released on Mar 2014. It features 4.313 billion transistors, 28 Rendering cores and 3GB GDDR5 memory, with 768KB L2 cache, theoretical performance of 3.344TFLOPS, with total power consumption of 200W.

Graphics Card

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Release Date

Mar 2014

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Type

Desktop

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

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Base Clock

827 MHz

Boost Clock

933 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

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Memory Size

3GB

Memory Type

GDDR5

Memory Bus

384bit

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

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Compute Units

28

Shading Units

1792

TMUs

112

ROPs

32

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

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Pixel Rate

29.86 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

104.5 GTexel/s

FP32 (float)

3.344 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

836.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

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GPU Name

Tahiti

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO3

(215-0821330)

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Foundry

TSMC

Process Size

28 nm

Transistors

4.313 billion

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

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TDP

200W

Suggested PSU

550 W

Outputs

1x DVI
2x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

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DirectX

12 (11_1)

OpenGL

4.6

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

Shader Model

5.1

Rankings

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FP32 (float)

AMD Radeon 680M System Shared System Shared

3.379 TFLOPS

AMD Radeon R9 280 3 GB GDDR5

3.344 TFLOPS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 2 GB GDDR5

3.333 TFLOPS

NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin 32 GB 32 GB LPDDR5

3.333 TFLOPS

NVIDIA Quadro T2000 Max Q 4 GB GDDR5

3.318 TFLOPS

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Boost 3 GB GDDR5

3.315 TFLOPS

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM 3 GB GDDR5

3.315 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile 2 GB GDDR5

2089

NVIDIA GeForce MX450 30.5W 10Gbps 2 GB GDDR6

2088

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max Q 4 GB GDDR5

2079

AMD Radeon R9 280 3 GB GDDR5

2009

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 2 GB GDDR5

1999

AMD Radeon HD 7950 3 GB GDDR5

1917

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 2 GB GDDR5

1862

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