AMD Radeon R9 280 vs AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme GPU

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AMD Radeon R9 280

AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme GPU

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 16GB VRAM Ryzen Z1 Extreme GPU 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 25.60GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme GPU 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 189% (2700MHz vs 933MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (30W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280

3.344 TFLOPS

Ryzen Z1 Extreme GPU +148%

8.294 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280

VS

Ryzen Z1 Extreme GPU

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Jun 2023

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Console GPU(ASUS)

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

-

Clock Speeds

827 MHz

Base Clock

800 MHz

933 MHz

Boost Clock

2700 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

LPDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

64bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

12

-

1792

Shading Units

768

112

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

32

-

RT Cores

12

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

768 KB

L2 Cache

8 MB

-

L3 Cache

16 MB

Theoretical Performance

29.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

86.40 GPixel/s

104.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

129.6 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

16.59 TFLOPS

3.344 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.294 TFLOPS

836.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

518.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

30W

550 W

Suggested PSU

-

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

Outputs

1x USB Type-C

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Phoenix

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

RDNA 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

4 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

25.39 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

178 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.8

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