AMD Radeon R9 280 vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 56 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 280 's Advantages

Lower TDP (200W vs 210W)

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 58% (1471MHz vs 933MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (409.6GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280

3.344 TFLOPS

Radeon RX Vega 56 +215%

10.54 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R9 280

2009

Radeon RX Vega 56 +242%

6873

Radeon R9 280

VS

Radeon RX Vega 56

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Aug 2017

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Vega

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

827 MHz

Base Clock

1156 MHz

933 MHz

Boost Clock

1471 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

384bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

409.6GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

28

Compute Units

56

1792

Shading Units

3584

112

TMUs

224

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

29.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

94.14 GPixel/s

104.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

329.5 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

21.09 TFLOPS

3.344 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.54 TFLOPS

836.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

659.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Vega 10

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

GPU Variant

Vega 10 XL (215-0894216)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 5.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

12.5 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

495 mm²

Board Design

200W

TDP

210W

550 W

Suggested PSU

550 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

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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