Intel Xe DG1 vs AMD Radeon R9 280

VS

Intel Xe DG1

AMD Radeon R9 280

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Xe DG1 and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

Intel Xe DG1 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 66% (1550MHz vs 933MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (30W vs 200W)

AMD Radeon R9 280 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 68.26GB/s)

1152 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Xe DG1

1.984 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280 +68%

3.344 TFLOPS

Xe DG1

VS

Radeon R9 280

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Mar 2014

Xe Graphics

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

827 MHz

1550 MHz

Boost Clock

933 MHz

2133 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

3GB

LPDDR4X

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

68.26GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

28

-

640

Shading Units

1792

40

TMUs

112

20

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

16 MB

L3 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

31.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.86 GPixel/s

62.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

104.5 GTexel/s

3.968 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1.984 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.344 TFLOPS

496.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

836.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

30W

TDP

200W

200 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 3x DisplayPort

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

DG1

GPU Name

Tahiti

-

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

Generation 12.1

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Intel

Foundry

TSMC

10 nm

Process Size

28 nm

Unknown

Transistors

4.313 billion

95 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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