AMD Radeon R9 280 vs AMD Radeon RX 7700

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 12GB VRAM Radeon RX 7700 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 7700 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 179% (2600MHz vs 933MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (432.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280

3.344 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 7700 +855%

31.95 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280

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Radeon RX 7700

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Jan 2023

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Navi III

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

827 MHz

Base Clock

1900 MHz

933 MHz

Boost Clock

2600 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

192bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

432.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

28

Compute Units

48

1792

Shading Units

3072

112

TMUs

192

32

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

48

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

768 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

29.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

249.6 GPixel/s

104.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

499.2 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

63.90 TFLOPS

3.344 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

31.95 TFLOPS

836.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

998.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Navi 32

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

GPU Variant

Navi 32

GCN 1.0

Architecture

RDNA 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

5 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

Unknown

352 mm²

Die Size

346 mm²

Board Design

200W

TDP

200W

550 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1a 2x DisplayPort 2.1 1x USB Type-C

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.2

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

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CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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