AMD Radeon R9 280 vs AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

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AMD Radeon R9 280 AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950 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 1% (933MHz vs 925MHz)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280

3.344 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950 OEM

3.315 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280

VS

Radeon HD 8950 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 x16

Clock Speeds

827 MHz

Base Clock

850 MHz

933 MHz

Boost Clock

925 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

384bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

28

Compute Units

28

1792

Shading Units

1792

112

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

29.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

104.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

103.6 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.344 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.315 TFLOPS

836.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

828.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Tahiti

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

200W

TDP

200W

550 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

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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