AMD Radeon R9 280 vs AMD Radeon Pro W5700X

VS

AMD Radeon R9 280

AMD Radeon Pro W5700X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro W5700X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 280 's Advantages

Lower TDP (200W vs 205W)

AMD Radeon Pro W5700X 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 119% (2040MHz vs 933MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280

3.344 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro W5700X +212%

10.44 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280

VS

Radeon Pro W5700X

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Dec 2019

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Radeon Pro Mac

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

827 MHz

Base Clock

1243 MHz

933 MHz

Boost Clock

2040 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

40

-

1792

Shading Units

2560

112

TMUs

160

32

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

130.6 GPixel/s

104.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

326.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

20.89 TFLOPS

3.344 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.44 TFLOPS

836.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

652.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

205W

550 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 4x Thunderbolt

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Navi 10

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

7 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

10.3 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

251 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.5

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