AMD Radeon R9 280X vs AMD Radeon R9 FURY X

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AMD Radeon R9 280X

AMD Radeon R9 FURY X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 FURY X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 280X 's Advantages

Boost Clock1000MHz

Lower TDP (250W vs 275W)

AMD Radeon R9 FURY X 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280X

4.096 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 FURY X +110%

8.602 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R9 280X

2348

Radeon R9 FURY X +120%

5173

Radeon R9 280X

VS

Radeon R9 FURY X

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Jun 2015

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Pirate Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

-

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM

384bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

64

-

2048

Shading Units

4096

128

TMUs

256

32

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

67.20 GPixel/s

128.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

268.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

8.602 TFLOPS

4.096 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.602 TFLOPS

1024 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

537.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

275W

600 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 1.4a 3x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Fiji

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

Fiji XT C8 (215-0862040)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

8.9 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

596 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.3

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