AMD Radeon R9 280X vs AMD Radeon RX 470

VS

AMD Radeon R9 280X

AMD Radeon RX 470

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 280X 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 211.2GB/s)

AMD Radeon RX 470 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 21% (1206MHz vs 1000MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (120W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280X

4.096 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 470 +20%

4.94 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R9 280X

2348

Radeon RX 470 +56%

3678

Radeon R9 280X

VS

Radeon RX 470

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Aug 2016

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Arctic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

926 MHz

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

1206 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1650 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

211.2GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

32

-

2048

Shading Units

2048

128

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.59 GPixel/s

128.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

154.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

4.940 TFLOPS

4.096 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.940 TFLOPS

1024 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

308.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

120W

600 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Ellesmere

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

Polaris 10 PRO (215-0876204)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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