AMD Radeon R9 280 vs AMD Radeon RX 5700

VS

AMD Radeon R9 280

AMD Radeon RX 5700

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 5700 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 5700 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 85% (1725MHz vs 933MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (180W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280

3.344 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5700 +137%

7.949 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R9 280

2009

Radeon RX 5700 +322%

8497

Radeon R9 280

VS

Radeon RX 5700

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Jul 2019

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Navi

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

827 MHz

Base Clock

1465 MHz

933 MHz

Boost Clock

1725 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

36

-

1792

Shading Units

2304

112

TMUs

144

32

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

110.4 GPixel/s

104.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

248.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

15.90 TFLOPS

3.344 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.949 TFLOPS

836.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

496.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

180W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 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 + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Navi 10

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

GPU Variant

Navi 10 XL (215-0917220)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

7 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

10.3 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

251 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

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5.1

Shader Model

6.5

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