AMD Radeon HD 7730 vs AMD Radeon R9 280X2

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 7730 and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7730 's Advantages

Lower TDP (47W vs 375W)

AMD Radeon R9 280X2 's Advantages

Boost Clock1000MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

1664 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7730

0.614 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280X2 +567%

4.096 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7730

VS

Radeon R9 280X2

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Unknown

Southern Islands

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

950 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

1125 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

72.00GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

6

Compute Units

32

384

Shading Units

2048

24

TMUs

128

8

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

6.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

19.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

614.4 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.096 TFLOPS

38.40 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1024 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cape Verde

GPU Name

Tahiti

Cape Verde LE

GPU Variant

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

47W

TDP

375W

200 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

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

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

3x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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