AMD Radeon RX 560DX vs AMD Radeon R9 280

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560DX 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 560DX 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 26% (1175MHz vs 933MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (65W vs 200W)

AMD Radeon R9 280 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 560DX

2.106 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280 +58%

3.344 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560DX

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Radeon R9 280

Graphics Card

Apr 2018

Release Date

Mar 2014

Polaris

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1090 MHz

Base Clock

827 MHz

1175 MHz

Boost Clock

933 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

14

Compute Units

28

896

Shading Units

1792

56

TMUs

112

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

18.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.86 GPixel/s

65.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

104.5 GTexel/s

2.106 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.106 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.344 TFLOPS

131.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

836.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Polaris 21

GPU Name

Tahiti

Polaris 21 XL

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

65W

TDP

200W

250 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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