AMD Radeon R9 280 vs ATI Radeon HD 4720

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 4720 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 280 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock933MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 21.34GB/s)

1472 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 4720 's Advantages

Lower TDP (55W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280 +770%

3.344 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4720

0.384 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280

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Radeon HD 4720

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Dec 2011

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Radeon R700

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

667 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

21.34GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

28

Compute Units

4

1792

Shading Units

320

112

TMUs

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

29.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.800 GPixel/s

104.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

19.20 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.344 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

384.0 GFLOPS

836.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

RV730

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

GPU Variant

RV730 XT (215-0719047)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.514 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

146 mm²

Board Design

200W

TDP

55W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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