AMD Radeon RX 560X vs AMD Radeon R9 280

VS

AMD Radeon RX 560X

AMD Radeon R9 280

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

Released 4 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 37% (1275MHz vs 933MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (75W vs 200W)

AMD Radeon R9 280 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 560X

2.611 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280 +28%

3.344 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560X

VS

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

1175 MHz

Base Clock

827 MHz

1275 MHz

Boost Clock

933 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

28

-

1024

Shading Units

1792

64

TMUs

112

16

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

20.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.86 GPixel/s

81.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

104.5 GTexel/s

2.611 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.611 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.344 TFLOPS

163.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

836.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

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 Processor

Polaris 21

GPU Name

Tahiti

Polaris 21 XT (215-0908004)

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

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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