AMD Radeon R9 280 vs AMD Radeon HD 8570 OEM

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AMD Radeon R9 280 AMD Radeon HD 8570 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8570 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 1 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 20% (933MHz vs 780MHz)

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

1408 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 8570 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280 +458%

3.344 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8570 OEM

0.599 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280

VS

Radeon HD 8570 OEM

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Jan 2013

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

827 MHz

Base Clock

730 MHz

933 MHz

Boost Clock

780 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

28

Compute Units

6

1792

Shading Units

384

112

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

29.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.240 GPixel/s

104.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

18.72 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.344 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

599.0 GFLOPS

836.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

37.44 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Oland

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.95 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

77 mm²

Board Design

200W

TDP

50W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x VGA

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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