ATI Radeon HD 4860 vs AMD Radeon R9 280

VS

ATI Radeon HD 4860

AMD Radeon R9 280

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4860 and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 4860 's Advantages

Lower TDP (130W vs 200W)

AMD Radeon R9 280 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock933MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

1152 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 4860

0.896 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280 +273%

3.344 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4860

VS

Radeon R9 280

Graphics Card

Sep 2009

Release Date

Mar 2014

Radeon R700

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

827 MHz

-

Boost Clock

933 MHz

750 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

28

-

640

Shading Units

1792

32

TMUs

112

16

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

11.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.86 GPixel/s

22.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

104.5 GTexel/s

-

896.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.344 TFLOPS

179.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

836.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

130W

TDP

200W

300 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

RV790

GPU Name

Tahiti

RV790 GT

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

TeraScale

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.959 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

282 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

4.1

Shader Model

5.1

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