AMD Radeon RX 580 OEM vs AMD Radeon R9 280

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580 OEM 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 580 OEM 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 36% (1266MHz vs 933MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 580 OEM +74%

5.834 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280

3.344 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580 OEM

VS

Radeon R9 280

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

Mar 2014

Polaris

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1120 MHz

Base Clock

827 MHz

1266 MHz

Boost Clock

933 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

36

Compute Units

28

2304

Shading Units

1792

144

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

40.51 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.86 GPixel/s

182.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

104.5 GTexel/s

5.834 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.834 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.344 TFLOPS

364.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

836.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

Tahiti

Polaris 10 XT (215-0876184)

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

Board Design

150W

TDP

200W

450 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 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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