AMD Radeon R9 280X vs AMD Radeon RX 7500 XT

VS

AMD Radeon R9 280X

AMD Radeon RX 7500 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X and 6GB VRAM Radeon RX 7500 XT 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 216.0GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 7500 XT 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 130% (2300MHz vs 1000MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (100W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280X

4.096 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 7500 XT +130%

9.421 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280X

VS

Radeon RX 7500 XT

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Unknown

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Navi III

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

1452 MHz

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

2300 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

96bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

216.0GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

16

-

2048

Shading Units

1024

128

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

32

-

RT Cores

16

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

768 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

L3 Cache

64 MB

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

73.60 GPixel/s

128.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

147.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

18.84 TFLOPS

4.096 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

9.421 TFLOPS

1024 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

294.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

100W

600 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1a 2x DisplayPort 2.1 1x USB Type-C

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Navi 33

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

Navi 33

GCN 1.0

Architecture

RDNA 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

6 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

13.3 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

204 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.2

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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