AMD Radeon R9 280X vs AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT

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AMD Radeon R9 280X AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 5700 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 90% (1905MHz vs 1000MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (225W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280X

4.096 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5700 XT +138%

9.754 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R9 280X

2339

Radeon RX 5700 XT +305%

9478

Radeon R9 280X

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Radeon RX 5700 XT

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Jul 2019

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Navi

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

1605 MHz

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

1905 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

32

Compute Units

40

2048

Shading Units

2560

128

TMUs

160

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

121.9 GPixel/s

128.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

304.8 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

19.51 TFLOPS

4.096 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

9.754 TFLOPS

1024 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

609.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Navi 10

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

Navi 10 XT (215-0917210)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

7 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

10.3 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

251 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

225W

600 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.5

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