AMD Radeon R9 280X vs AMD Radeon Instinct MI325X

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AMD Radeon R9 280X

AMD Radeon Instinct MI325X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X and 288GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI325X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 280X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (250W vs 750W)

AMD Radeon Instinct MI325X 's Advantages

Released 11 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 110% (2100MHz vs 1000MHz)

More VRAM (288GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (10.3TB/s vs 288.0GB/s)

17408 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280X

4.096 TFLOPS

Radeon Instinct MI325X +1895%

81.72 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280X

VS

Radeon Instinct MI325X

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Oct 2024

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Radeon Instinct(MIx)

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 5.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

2100 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

2525 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

288GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM3e

384bit

Memory Bus

8192bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

10.3TB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

304

-

2048

Shading Units

19456

128

TMUs

1216

32

ROPs

0

-

Tensor Cores

1216

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

16 MB

-

L3 Cache

256 MB

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

0 MPixel/s

128.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2554 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

653.7 TFLOPS

4.096 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

81.72 TFLOPS

1024 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

81.72 TFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

750W

600 W

Suggested PSU

1150 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Aqua Vanjaram

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

CDNA 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

5 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

153 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

1017 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

N/A

4.6

OpenGL

N/A

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.1

Shader Model

N/A

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