AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT vs AMD Radeon R9 280

VS

AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT

AMD Radeon R9 280

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 5500 XT 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 5500 XT 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 98% (1845MHz vs 933MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (130W vs 200W)

AMD Radeon R9 280 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 5500 XT +55%

5.196 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280

3.344 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 5500 XT +144%

4915

Radeon R9 280

2009

Radeon RX 5500 XT

VS

Radeon R9 280

Graphics Card

Dec 2019

Release Date

Mar 2014

Navi

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1607 MHz

Base Clock

827 MHz

1845 MHz

Boost Clock

933 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

22

Compute Units

28

-

1408

Shading Units

1792

88

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

59.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.86 GPixel/s

162.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

104.5 GTexel/s

10.39 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.196 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.344 TFLOPS

324.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

836.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

130W

TDP

200W

300 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 14

GPU Name

Tahiti

Navi 14 XTX (215-0932396)

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

RDNA 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

28 nm

6.4 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

158 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.5

Shader Model

5.1

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