AMD Radeon R9 280 vs AMD Radeon RX 5300 XT

VS

AMD Radeon R9 280

AMD Radeon RX 5300 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 5300 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 280 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 5300 XT 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 98% (1845MHz vs 933MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (100W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280

3.344 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5300 XT +55%

5.196 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280

VS

Radeon RX 5300 XT

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Oct 2019

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Navi

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

827 MHz

Base Clock

1670 MHz

933 MHz

Boost Clock

1845 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

112.0GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

22

-

1792

Shading Units

1408

112

TMUs

88

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

59.04 GPixel/s

104.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

162.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

10.39 TFLOPS

3.344 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.196 TFLOPS

836.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

324.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

100W

550 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Navi 14

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

GPU Variant

Navi 14 XL

GCN 1.0

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

7 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

6.4 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

158 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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