AMD Radeon R9 280 vs ATI Radeon HD 5830

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5830 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 1 months late

Boost Clock933MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1GB)

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

672 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 5830 's Advantages

Lower TDP (175W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280 +86%

3.344 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5830

1.792 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280

VS

Radeon HD 5830

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Feb 2010

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

-

SM Count

-

28

Compute Units

14

1792

Shading Units

1120

112

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

29.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.80 GPixel/s

104.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

44.80 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.344 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.792 TFLOPS

836.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

358.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Cypress

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

GPU Variant

Cypress LE (215-0735047)

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

Board Design

200W

TDP

175W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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