AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT vs AMD Radeon R9 280X2

VS

AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT

AMD Radeon R9 280X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 9070 XT and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 170% (2700MHz vs 1000MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (624.1GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (260W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 9070 XT +440%

22.12 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280X2

4.096 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 9070 XT

VS

Radeon R9 280X2

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Unknown

Navi IV(RX 9000)

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2210 MHz

Base Clock

950 MHz

2700 MHz

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

2438 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

624.1GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

64

Compute Units

32

-

4096

Shading Units

2048

256

TMUs

128

96

ROPs

32

-

64

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

64 MB

L3 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

259.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

691.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.0 GTexel/s

44.24 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

22.12 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.096 TFLOPS

691.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1024 GFLOPS

Board Design

260W

TDP

375W

600 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

1x HDMI 2.1a3x DisplayPort 2.1

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

3x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 48

GPU Name

Tahiti

Navi 48 XT

GPU Variant

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

RDNA 4.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

4 nm

Process Size

28 nm

Unknown

Transistors

4.313 billion

Unknown

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.2

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.8

Shader Model

5.1

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