AMD Radeon R9 280 vs AMD Radeon HD 7670 OEM

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AMD Radeon R9 280 AMD Radeon HD 7670 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 7670 OEM 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 2 months late

Boost Clock933MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

1312 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 7670 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (66W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280 +335%

3.344 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7670 OEM

0.768 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280

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Radeon HD 7670 OEM

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Jan 2012

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Southern Islands

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

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

28

Compute Units

6

1792

Shading Units

480

112

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

29.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.400 GPixel/s

104.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

19.20 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

-

3.344 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

768.0 GFLOPS

836.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Turks

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

GPU Variant

Turks XT (215-0803000)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.716 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

118 mm²

Board Design

200W

TDP

66W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x DisplayPort 1.1 1x VGA

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

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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