AMD Radeon VII vs AMD Radeon R9 280X

VS

AMD Radeon VII

AMD Radeon R9 280X

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

Main Differences

AMD Radeon VII 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 75% (1750MHz vs 1000MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1020GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 280X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (250W vs 295W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon VII +228%

13.44 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280X

4.096 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon VII +296%

9319

Radeon R9 280X

2348

Radeon VII

VS

Radeon R9 280X

Graphics Card

Feb 2019

Release Date

Oct 2013

Vega II

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1400 MHz

Base Clock

850 MHz

1750 MHz

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

3GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

4096bit

Memory Bus

384bit

1020GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

60

Compute Units

32

-

3840

Shading Units

2048

240

TMUs

128

64

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

112.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

420.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.0 GTexel/s

26.88 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

13.44 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.096 TFLOPS

3.360 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1024 GFLOPS

Board Design

295W

TDP

250W

600 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Vega 20

GPU Name

Tahiti

Vega 20 XT

GPU Variant

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

GCN 5.1

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

28 nm

13.23 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

331 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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