AMD Radeon R9 280X vs AMD Radeon R7 265X OEM

VS

AMD Radeon R9 280X

AMD Radeon R7 265X OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 265X OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 280X 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 8% (1000MHz vs 925MHz)

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 179.2GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R7 265X OEM 's Advantages

Released 10 months late

Lower TDP (150W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280X +72%

4.096 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 265X OEM

2.368 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280X

VS

Radeon R7 265X OEM

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Aug 2014

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

900 MHz

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

925 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

179.2GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

20

-

2048

Shading Units

1280

128

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

128.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

74.00 GTexel/s

-

4.096 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.368 TFLOPS

1024 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

148.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

150W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Curacao

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

Curacao PRO (215-0848000)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

Related GPU Comparisons

1

AMD Radeon R9 280X vs ATI Radeon HD 4650

2

AMD Radeon R9 280X vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT Rebrand

3

AMD Radeon R9 280X vs AMD Radeon Pro WX 7100

4

AMD Radeon R9 280X vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS

5

AMD Radeon R9 280X vs AMD Radeon RX 580 OEM

6

AMD Radeon R9 280X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

7

AMD Radeon R9 280X vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling

8

AMD Radeon R9 280X vs AMD Radeon HD 8760 OEM

9

AMD Radeon R9 280X vs AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT

10

AMD Radeon R9 280X vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 OEM

Related News

1

Intel Wildcat Lake Appears on Shipping List with FCBGA1516 Socket, Poised to Replace Alder Lake-N

2

The Commencement of ARM and Qualcomm Licensing Dispute Trial: Potential Major Impact on PC Market

3

NVIDIA Allegedly Equips RTX 5080 with 30Gbps Memory Speed, Other Models to Feature 28Gbps

4

Intel Reports High Return Rates for Devices Featuring Snapdragon X Series; Qualcomm Counters with 'Industry Standard' Claim

5

Intel Confirms Panther Lake Adopts 18A Process, ES0 Samples Already Sent to Customers

6

Complete Lineup of Core Ultra 200HX/H/U and Core 200H/U Revealed: 31 Models to Dazzle the Eyes

7

Amechi Unveils V1 Mini PC: Only 0.33L Volume with 150W Power Consumption

8

iPhone 17 Series Set for Major Design Overhaul: Camera Module Transformed into Sleek Strip

9

The Thinnest iPhone Ever! iPhone 17 Air Reportedly Enters Foxconn's NPI Stage

10

Apple Allegedly Cancels M4 Extreme, Originally Planned for Mac Pro with 64-Core CPU and 160-Core GPU