AMD Radeon R9 280X

This is a GPU manufactured with TSMC 28nm process, based on AMD GCN 1.0 architecture and released on Oct 2013. It features 4.313 billion transistors, 32 Rendering cores and 3GB GDDR5 memory, with 768KB L2 cache, theoretical performance of 4.096TFLOPS, with total power consumption of 250W.

Graphics Card

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Release Date

Oct 2013

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Type

Desktop

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

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Base Clock

850 MHz

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

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Memory Size

3GB

Memory Type

GDDR5

Memory Bus

384bit

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

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Compute Units

32

Shading Units

2048

TMUs

128

ROPs

32

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

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Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

128.0 GTexel/s

FP32 (float)

4.096 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1024 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

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GPU Name

Tahiti

GPU Variant

Tahiti XTL

(215-0821065)

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

250W

Suggested PSU

600 W

Outputs

2x DVI
1x 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)

NVIDIA Tesla K80 12 GB GDDR5

4.113 TFLOPS

AMD Radeon R9 285X 3 GB GDDR5

4.104 TFLOPS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max Q 6 GB GDDR6

4.101 TFLOPS

Intel Arc Pro A30M 4 GB GDDR6

4.096 TFLOPS

AMD Radeon E8950 8 GB GDDR5

4.096 TFLOPS

AMD Radeon HD 7990 3 GB GDDR5

4.096 TFLOPS

AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM 3 GB GDDR5

4.096 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 3 GB GDDR5

2795

AMD Radeon R9 380 2 GB GDDR5

2794

AMD Radeon 780M System Shared System Shared

2737

AMD Radeon R9 280X 3 GB GDDR5

2348

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile 4 GB GDDR5

2339

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4 GB GDDR5

2337

AMD Radeon 680M System Shared System Shared

2329

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