AMD Radeon R9 280 vs ATI Radeon HD 5970

VS

AMD Radeon R9 280

ATI Radeon HD 5970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 280 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock933MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

192 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (200W vs 294W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280 +44%

3.344 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

2.32 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Nov 2009

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

827 MHz

Base Clock

-

933 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

20

-

1792

Shading Units

1600

112

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.20 GPixel/s

104.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

58.00 GTexel/s

-

3.344 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.320 TFLOPS

836.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

464.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

294W

550 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Hemlock

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

GPU Variant

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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