AMD Radeon RX 5700 vs AMD Radeon R9 280

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 5700 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 5700 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 85% (1725MHz vs 933MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (180W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 5700 +137%

7.949 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280

3.344 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 5700 +323%

8503

Radeon R9 280

2009

Radeon RX 5700

VS

Radeon R9 280

Graphics Card

Jul 2019

Release Date

Mar 2014

Navi

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1465 MHz

Base Clock

827 MHz

1725 MHz

Boost Clock

933 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

36

Compute Units

28

2304

Shading Units

1792

144

TMUs

112

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

110.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.86 GPixel/s

248.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

104.5 GTexel/s

15.90 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.949 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.344 TFLOPS

496.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

836.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 10

GPU Name

Tahiti

Navi 10 XL (215-0917220)

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

RDNA 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

28 nm

10.3 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

251 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

180W

TDP

200W

450 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 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.5

Shader Model

5.1

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