AMD Radeon R9 280 vs ATI Radeon HD 5530

VS

AMD Radeon R9 280

ATI Radeon HD 5530

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5530 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 280 's Advantages

Released 3 years late

Boost Clock933MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 9.600GB/s)

1712 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 5530 's Advantages

Lower TDP (19W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280 +3115%

3.344 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5530

0.104 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280

VS

Radeon HD 5530

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Mar 2011

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

600 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

64bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

9.600GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

2

-

1792

Shading Units

80

112

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.600 GPixel/s

104.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.200 GTexel/s

-

3.344 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

104.0 GFLOPS

836.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

200W

TDP

19W

550 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Cedar

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

GPU Variant

Cedar XTX

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

59 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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