AMD Radeon RX 470D vs AMD Radeon R9 280

VS

AMD Radeon RX 470D

AMD Radeon R9 280

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470D 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 RX 470D 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 29% (1206MHz vs 933MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (120W vs 200W)

AMD Radeon R9 280 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 211.2GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 470D +29%

4.322 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280

3.344 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 470D

VS

Radeon R9 280

Graphics Card

Oct 2016

Release Date

Mar 2014

Arctic Islands

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

926 MHz

Base Clock

827 MHz

1206 MHz

Boost Clock

933 MHz

1650 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

211.2GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

28

-

1792

Shading Units

1792

112

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

38.59 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.86 GPixel/s

135.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

104.5 GTexel/s

4.322 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.322 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.344 TFLOPS

270.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

836.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

200W

300 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

Tahiti

Polaris 10 PROD

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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