AMD Radeon R9 280 vs AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

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AMD Radeon R9 280

AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 16GB VRAM Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled 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 375W)

AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 71% (1600MHz vs 933MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

2304 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280

3.344 TFLOPS

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled +292%

13.11 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280

VS

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Jul 2017

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Radeon Pro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

827 MHz

Base Clock

1382 MHz

933 MHz

Boost Clock

1600 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

945 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

384bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

483.8GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

64

-

1792

Shading Units

4096

112

TMUs

256

32

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

102.4 GPixel/s

104.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

409.6 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

26.21 TFLOPS

3.344 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

13.11 TFLOPS

836.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

819.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

375W

550 W

Suggested PSU

750 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 Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Vega 10

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

GPU Variant

Vega 10 XTX LCS

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

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

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5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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