AMD Radeon R9 280 vs AMD Radeon RX 560 XT

VS

AMD Radeon R9 280

AMD Radeon RX 560 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560 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 224.0GB/s)

AMD Radeon RX 560 XT 's Advantages

Released 5 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 31% (1226MHz vs 933MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (150W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280

3.344 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560 XT +31%

4.394 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280

VS

Radeon RX 560 XT

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Mar 2019

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

827 MHz

Base Clock

1074 MHz

933 MHz

Boost Clock

1226 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

28

-

1792

Shading Units

1792

112

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

39.23 GPixel/s

104.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

137.3 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

4.394 TFLOPS

3.344 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.394 TFLOPS

836.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

274.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

150W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Ellesmere

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

GPU Variant

Polaris 10 LE1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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