AMD Radeon R9 280 vs AMD Radeon R7 260X

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 280 's Advantages

Boost Clock933MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 104.0GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R7 260X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (115W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280 +69%

3.344 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260X

1.971 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R9 280 +36%

2009

Radeon R7 260X

1476

Radeon R9 280

VS

Radeon R7 260X

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Oct 2013

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

827 MHz

Base Clock

-

933 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1625 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

104.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

28

Compute Units

14

1792

Shading Units

896

112

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

16

-

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

17.60 GPixel/s

104.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

61.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.344 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.971 TFLOPS

836.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

123.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Bonaire

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

GPU Variant

Bonaire XTX (215-0839097)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Board Design

200W

TDP

115W

550 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.3

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