AMD Radeon R9 280 vs AMD Radeon R7 350

VS

AMD Radeon R9 280

AMD Radeon R7 350

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 350 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 72.00GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R7 350 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 4 months late

Lower TDP (55W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280 +308%

3.344 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 350

0.819 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280

VS

Radeon R7 350

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Jul 2016

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Pirate 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

1125 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

8

-

1792

Shading Units

512

112

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.80 GPixel/s

104.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

25.60 GTexel/s

-

3.344 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

819.2 GFLOPS

836.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

51.20 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

55W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Cape Verde

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

GPU Variant

Cape Verde PRO MOCHA

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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