AMD Radeon R9 280 vs AMD Radeon R9 360 OEM

VS

AMD Radeon R9 280

AMD Radeon R9 360 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 360 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 280 's Advantages

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

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

1024 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 360 OEM 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 13% (1050MHz vs 933MHz)

Lower TDP (85W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280 +107%

3.344 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 360 OEM

1.613 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280

VS

Radeon R9 360 OEM

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

May 2015

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Pirate Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

827 MHz

Base Clock

1000 MHz

933 MHz

Boost Clock

1050 MHz

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

28

Compute Units

12

-

1792

Shading Units

768

112

TMUs

48

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

16.80 GPixel/s

104.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

50.40 GTexel/s

-

3.344 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.613 TFLOPS

836.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

100.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

85W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 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

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Tobago

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

GPU Variant

Tobago PRO (215-0875010)

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

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

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5.1

Shader Model

6.3

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