AMD Radeon R9 FURY X2 vs AMD Radeon R9 280

VS

AMD Radeon R9 FURY X2

AMD Radeon R9 280

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 FURY X2 and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 FURY X2 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

2304 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 280 's Advantages

Boost Clock933MHz

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 FURY X2 +157%

8.602 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280

3.344 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 FURY X2

VS

Radeon R9 280

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Mar 2014

Pirate Islands

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

827 MHz

-

Boost Clock

933 MHz

500 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

3GB

HBM

Memory Type

GDDR5

4096bit

Memory Bus

384bit

512.0GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

64

Compute Units

28

-

4096

Shading Units

1792

256

TMUs

112

64

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

67.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.86 GPixel/s

268.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

104.5 GTexel/s

-

8.602 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.344 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

836.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

200W

200 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 1.4a 3x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

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

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Capsaicin

GPU Name

Tahiti

Capsaicin XT C9

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

GCN 3.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

8.9 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

596 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.5

Shader Model

5.1

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